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单词 custom
释义
custom
(kʌstəm )
Word forms: customs
1. variable noun B1+
A custom is an activity, a way of behaving, or an event which is usual or traditional in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
The custom of lighting the famous flame goes back centuries. [+ of]
Chung has tried to adapt to local customs.
Synonyms: tradition, practice, convention, ritual  
2. singular noun [oft with poss]
If it is your custom to do something, you usually do it in particular circumstances.
It was his custom to approach every problem cautiously.
As is the custom, police forensic experts carried out a painstaking search of the debris.
Synonyms: habit, way, practice, manner  
3. uncountable noun [usually with poss]
If a shop has your custom, you regularly buy things there. [British, formal]
You have the right to withhold your custom if you so wish.
Providing discounts is not the only way to win custom.
Synonyms: customers, business, trade, patronage  
4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If you use custom to describe something such as a vehicle or a piece of clothing, you mean that it has been designed for one particular customer.
Her one-of -a-kind custom garments are priced from one hundred dollars.
5.  See also customs
Quotations:
Custom reconciles us to everythingEdmund BurkeThe Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance
William ShakespeareHamlet
Collocations:
custom design
Having always used custom design, this seemed a natural progression for them.
Times, Sunday Times
And so we have to take responsibility and sort of custom design some streams of replenishment, be they spiritual streams or relational streams or recreational streams.
Christianity Today
Radios are now designed with a myriad of features to preclude the need for custom design.
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Individual assessments are used to custom design programs for individual and groups to develop further intercultural competencies.
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All major metal building system manufacturers utilize computer tools to custom design a building system and all building components, based on the customers specifications.
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custom dictates
Custom dictates that no tools be used on this day.
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Dancing may start with either the slow steps, or the quick steps, as the local custom dictates.
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Custom dictates that the president upon taking office renounce any party affiliation, so that he or she may be seen as neutral in regard to party politics.
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custom software
But it’s still nowhere near as flexible as custom software.
Globe and Mail
Quest also produced products that help develop, manage, monitor and protect packaged and custom software applications.
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The company provides custom software development services, mobile software development, web and desktop application development.
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The central computer system uses a custom software package to control each aspect of the camera system, including motion, video, and obstacle avoidance.
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This through a simple point-and-click interface eliminating the need of writing custom software.
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customs law
Expertise must be sought, acquired and retained in such diverse areas as labor law, environmental law, customs law, real estate law, etc.
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By deputation, it enforced immigration law, customs law, forestry law, quarantine law, election law, public service law, and amusement law and weight and standards on rice and palay.
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The customs law set trade barriers to products produced in the country, and imposed high import tariffs on luxury goods, together with export quotas and tariffs on gold and silver.
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customs officials
Stunned customs officials initially assumed the tiny mutt was a toy.
The Sun
Reports that customs officials also found 'some roses - but we didn't care about those', are unconfirmed.
Times, Sunday Times
Copies were seized and destroyed by customs officials.
Times, Sunday Times
He was caught out after his fingerprints were taken by customs officials.
Times, Sunday Times
But he broke strict quarantine rules by failing to tell customs officials about the pooches.
The Sun
customs revenue
The only functioning parts of the bureaucracy were the postal service, customs revenue service, and the salt administration which was staffed by foreign employees.
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In the late 12th century, the princes discovered customs revenue as a source of income and some castles were built to control customs.
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Customs revenue paid off the 1860 indemnities.
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follow a custom
This book did not follow this custom however.
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Following their customs and united by the bonds of kinship they built a community.
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Usually, the rhythm instrument lines follow the customs of modern rock music.
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Each paperback follows the custom of having a three-word title.
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This followed the custom that two individuals were required to drink together and both keros in the pair would have identical size, shape, and decoration.
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local custom
He was to carry it out 'by local custom'.
Times, Sunday Times
There are, says local custom, three ways of doing things.
Times, Sunday Times
I am concerned that fewer tourists will be visiting this year, so we are trying to attract more local custom that pays in euros.
Times, Sunday Times
Local custom says that if you buy your own jade you will have bad luck for seven years.
ST
Perhaps said ritual has nothing to do with quaint local custom and everything to do with a sophisticated selling technique.
Times, Sunday Times
tribal custom
Cousins of the soldier, they are gracious and scrupulously polite in the way of tribal custom.
Times, Sunday Times
Everybody knows what should be the amount as per the tribal custom.
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Tribal governments were basically relegated to settling disputes between tribal members based on tribal custom, and being a conduit for federally sponsored community support.
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His family claimed the body themselves asserting longstanding tribal custom.
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Of course, such marriages are not solemnized following tribal custom.
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Translations:
Chinese: 习惯
Japanese: 風習
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