- a usual practice or habitual way of behaving; habit
- a social convention carried on by tradition and enforced by social disapproval of any violation
- such practices, collectively
- under feudalism, a service, rent, etc. regularly paid to a lord
- [pl.]
- duties or taxes imposed by a government on imported and, occasionally, exported goods
- [with sing. v.] the government agency in charge of collecting these duties, or any of its offices
- the regular support or patronage of a business establishment
- customers as a group
- Law such usage as by common consent and long-established, uniform practice has taken on the force of law
Origin of custom
Middle English from Old French costume from Classical Latin consuetudo from consuescere, to accustom from com-, intensive + suescere, to become accustomed from suere, to be accustomed, akin to suus, one's own: for Indo-European base see suicide- made or done to order or, sometimes, made extra fine, as if to order
- making things to order, or dealing in things made to order: a custom tailor
