common practice
The usual way
Common practice is what's conventionally done—the usual, accepted way of doing things in a particular field or context.
What's common practice isn't necessarily required or optimal, just typical: It's common practice to tip 20 percent at restaurants.
The phrase often appears when questioning or justifying established norms: Is this common practice in your industry?
- commonplaceUnremarkable and frequent
- habitualDone by routine
- typicalRepresentative of a kind
- customaryDone by convention
- routineRegular sequence of actions
business as usual · prevailing · conventional · done thing · unwritten law · established · de facto standard · tacit consent · modus operandi · acquiescence · normal · usual · social norms · standard · accepted · social convention · traditional · time-honored tradition
- social codessocial norms, social norm, unwritten rule, unspoken rule, unspoken rules
- workaroundsworkaround, workarounds, fixes, hacks, quick fix
common practicetaboo
Cultural or social prohibition
deviant behavior · transgression · violation · malpractice · misconduct
common, practice, commonly, commonness, commonality, commons, commoner, uncommon, uncommonly