proper conduct

collocation in English

meaningsofproperandconduct

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proper
adjective
uk
/ˈprɒp.ər/us
/ˈprɑː.pɚ/
real, satisfactory, suitable, ...
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conduct
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.dʌkt/us
/ˈkɑːn.dʌkt/
behaviour:
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(Definition ofproperandconductfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofproper conduct

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They emphasised the salience of individual comportment,properconductand correspondence as central to individual well-being.
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Effective research governance is essential for theproperconductof research, and setting out a framework by which this can be achieved is good practice.
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However, they did not leave it to the free will of people to judge what constitutedproperconduct.
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The student and the supervisor should both strive to maintain an open dialogue about theproperconductof science.
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His or his contemporaries' concerns with landed property, legal rights, education, and scholarly or geographical explorations all fitted some idea or other of theproperconductof states.
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It is the responsibility of individual unions to ensure theproperconductof elections including opportunities for candidates to circulate material to members.
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We are concerned here not with the merits or demerits of smoking but with theproperconductof public business.
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We regard the maintenance of the panel's current relationship with the courts as essential to theproperconductof takeovers.
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Its omission would be a direct incentive to misconduct, instead of being as it is now a direct incentive toproperconduct.
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There are problems of waging theproperconductof the examination of witnesses who appear before them.
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To restrict his power of entry by always requiring suspicion of a contravention within his own area would inhibit theproperconductof an inquiry.
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It is the responsibility of audited bodies to put in place suitable arrangements to ensure theproperconductof their financial affairs.
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This process of inflation has not only produced those results but has interfered with rational economic calculation and theproperconductof business.
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The reason for the rule is, undoubtedly, to allow theproperconductof business in this place.
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Adequate farm roads are essential to theproperconductof the industry, and that is even more true of buildings.
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He has made no comment about the necessity for theproperconductof direct works departments in local government.
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The sport of coursing, like other sports, has built into it its own code ofproperconduct.
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There was no great merit in them other than the money that they raised, which was vital to theproperconductof the economy.
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We wish to assist in every way we can theproperconductof the moneylending business.
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Clause 14 required the deposit of a guarantee bond to ensureproperconductby agents.
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