Conduct

/ˈkɒndʌkt/ · noun

Meaning

The act or method of controlling or directing..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act or method of controlling or directing.
2. Skillful guidance or management.
3. Behaviour; the manner of behaving.
4. (of a literary work) Plot.
5. (obsolete) Convoy; escort; person who accompanies another.
6. (archaic) Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument; a conduit.
7. (Anglicanism, obsolete outside fixed titles) A priest hired to hold services without secure title; now a chaplain.
8. (archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.

Example Sentences

There are other restrictions imposed upon the conduct of war, not by the law of nature primarily, but by the laws of war first, and by the law of nature as seconding and ratifying the laws of war.

the conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs, its policy, and its laws, are for more uncertain

1722 (first printed) Edmund Waller, Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons Conduct of armies is a prince's art.

If thou wilt ſtay with me renowmed man, / And lead thy thouſand horſe with my conduct, / Beſides thy ſhare of this Egyptian prize, / Thoſe thouſand horſe shall ſweat with martiall ſpoyle / Of conquered kingdomes, and of Cities ſackt, […]

[…] attacked the Spaniards […] with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed.

At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post; with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of most unpromising appearance, forming a kind of staff about him. The conduct of a second party, whose route lay by Blackfriars, was entrusted to a committee of management

Good conduct will be rewarded and likewise poor conduct will be punished.

when she came to recall the affectionate and natural manner of the young Indian girl, and all the evidences of good faith and sincerity she had seen in her conduct during the familiar intercourse of their journey, she rejected the idea with the unwillingness of a generous disposition to believe ill of others

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• conducts
• conducting
• conducted

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