behaviour

American  

[bih-heyv-yer] / bɪˈheɪv yər /

noun

Chiefly British.

1. behavior.

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behaviour British  

/ bɪˈheɪvjə /

noun

1. manner of behaving or conducting oneself

2. behaving with careful good manners

3. psychol

   1. the aggregate of all the responses made by an organism in any situation

   2. a specific response of a certain organism to a specific stimulus or group of stimuli

4. the action, reaction, or functioning of a system, under normal or specified circumstances

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Spelling

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Other Word Forms

• behavioural adjective

Etymology

Origin of behaviour

C15: from _behave ; influenced in form by Middle English havior , from Old French havoir , from Latin habēre to have

Example Sentences

They had not been walked for four weeks before the attack and a dog behaviour expert had described conditions inside Warren's home as "impoverished".

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But it's about developing young people and behaviours and helping them.

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That in turn has required drivers to perform behaviours that have been described as "counter-intuitive" to optimise lap time.

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The Welsh government said the work was "part of a wide range of actions" it was taking on behaviour following the National Behaviour Summit and after working with the education sector.

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"While our access controls and data protection policies remained intact, this behaviour did not meet our intended Copilot experience, which is designed to exclude protected content from Copilot access," they added.

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