standard practice
How it's done
Standard practice is the usual or accepted way of doing something within a particular field, profession, or context.
It describes methods that have become conventional through widespread adoption: It's standard practice to get three quotes before hiring a contractor.
The phrase often appears when explaining why something is done a certain way, or when questioning whether established methods should change.
- normAccepted behavioral standard
- routineRegular sequence of actions
- modus operandiCharacteristic way of working
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
procedure · customary · common · common knowledge · expected · usual · par for the course · accepted · traditional · tried and true · baseline · default · typical · established · guideline · benchmark · operating · manual
- methodsmethod, approach, way, technique, procedure
- protocolsprotocol, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, diplomatic protocol
- dullnessboring, boredom, monotony, dullness, banality
- heuristicsrule of thumb, heuristic, guideline, mental shortcut, educated guess
standard practiceinnovation
Creating something original
deviation · experimental method · breaking with tradition · rule-breaking
standard practiceimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
workaround · jerry-rigging · kludge · hack · winging it
standard practiceexception
Deviation from standard
anomaly · rare occurrence · aberration · outlier · one-off
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