modus operandi
a mode of operating or working: The aim of a scientist is to investigate the modus operandi of the natural world.
one’s usual way of doing something: A criminal’s modus operandi can give the police a lead.Abbreviation: MO
Origin of modus operandi
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How to use modus operandi in a sentence
ESG should be incorporated in every business’s modus operandi … it’s a best practice.
How to tell if your sustainable investments really are good for the planet | Angely Mercado | October 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceI had spent a lot of time studying offenses linked to Hill by modus operandi, DNA or arrest.
How Our Investigation Into Untested DNA Evidence Helped Solve a 1983 Murder | by Catherine Rentz | June 18, 2021 | ProPublicaHidalgo Salazar’s modus operandi will focus on participating in an exercise where LGBTQ individuals outline and work toward what they would like their liberation to look like.
National LGBTQ Task Force welcomes new leadership | Prince Chingarande | June 15, 2021 | Washington BladeThe intimacy of sport, the trust young athletes must place in their trainers, and the modus operandi of sexual predators mean that this is a danger regardless of the athletic pursuit.
Online and phone ordering with contactless delivery or curbside pickup has become the modus operandi for millions of businesses.
That seems to be the modus operandi as The League moves closer to the seven-year itch.
The MVPs of Sleaze Are Back: FXX's 'The League' Ups the Degenerate Ante | Emily Shire | September 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEach new creative wave that comes along seems to have to challenge the previous modus operandi.
The Doors Never Sold Out to Crass Commercialism | John Densmore | September 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTRubin echoed this message today, explicitly endorsing it as a modus operandi for the Egyptian military.
As always with CBS, if it's not broken, don't fix it seems to be their modus operandi.
But under the ad hoc rules of crony capitalism, the law counts for little and political hardball is the modus operandi.
Once satisfied that it was just and honourable, and it was comparatively child's work to arrange the modus operandi.
He had a modus operandi of making the conditional mood mean the imperative.
The British Expedition to the Crimea | William Howard RussellThey might, too, have told us to advantage something about the modus operandi of "walking a plank."
The modus operandi is exactly the same as for the larger game.
The Art and Practice of Hawking | Edward B. MichellAs for the modus operandi of the fatty food, there is no certainty.
Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it | Francis E. Anstie
British Dictionary definitions for modus operandi
/ (ˈməʊdəs ˌɒpəˈrændiː, -ˈrændaɪ) /
procedure; method of operating
Origin of modus operandi
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Cultural definitions for modus operandi
[ (moh-duhs op-uh-ran-dee, op-uh-ran-deye) ]
The way someone does something; a characteristic method: “Her modus operandi in buying a new car always included a month of research.” This phrase, often abbreviated “m.o.,” is used by police to describe a criminal's characteristic way of committing a crime. From Latin, meaning “method of operation.”
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