code of ethics

American  

[kohd-uhv e-thiks] / ˈkoʊd əv ˈɛ θɪks /

noun

1. a set of guidelines, rules, or moral standards for behavior within a profession or workplace.

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Example Sentences

Those trials led to the Nuremberg Code of ethics for human medical experimentation.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I hope I won’t offend if I say that the purpose of this Restoration Ring was never to air your code of ethics.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“That’s the wrong way to think! It’s not about you anymore, Hugo. This city isn’t going to get through a collective trauma with your code of ethics. You have Together! Do you even know the principles?”

From The Wall Street Journal

“The accounting industry’s code of ethics and our client agreements strictly prohibit BDO from discussing any aspect of our audit work for any client,” a BDO spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal

And Prof Asa Kasher of Tel Aviv University, who was the lead author of the IDF's first code of ethics, told us the number of non-combatants killed "seems too high to be taken to result from reasonable proportionality considerations".

From BBC