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be·hav·iour (bē hāv′yər, bi-)

noun

Brit. behavior

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behaviour Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • offend: However, assistance will always be offered to anyone who wants help breaking out of their offending behavior.

Adjective modifier

  • anti-social: Who do I contact about anti-social behavior at The Valley?

Modifies a noun

  • modification: Future effective food hygiene training strategies in the UK must encompass behavioral change or behavior modification.

Noun used with modifier

  • consumer: His research focuses on whether firms can exploit consumer behavior that is commonly simplified by standard economic theory.
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behaviour quotes

Learned men†do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage, so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find them wanting in smaller. 46

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

My common conversation I do acknowledge austere, my behaviour full of rigor, sometimes not without morosity; yet at mydevotion I loveto usethe civility of my knee, my hat, and hand, withall thoseoutward and sensiblemotions which may express or promote my invisible devotion.

-Browne, SirThomas

CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

-Coupland, Douglas

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