noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a code of practice/conduct/ethics (= rules for people in a particular profession or business )
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There is a strict code of conduct for doctors.
work ethic
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They instilled the work ethic into their children.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
medical
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The big beasts of medical ethics have been locking horns, the rationalists against the religious as usual.
new
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Suddenly the climate was imbued with a new Puritan ethic , not the work ethic but the breeding ethic.
professional
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The group may provide guidelines for behaviour such as a professional ethic or a code of conduct. 5.
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I was a lawyer, a professional man who worked within a set of professional ethics .
protestant
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It spread through the body and achieved chemically and pharmacologically what rationalism and the Protestant ethic sought to fulfill spiritually and ideologically.
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The good old Protestant work ethic .
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work
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Irvin developed his work ethic because of his father, who was a roofer.
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You come from a modesty culture. Work ethic , and all that.
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The good old Protestant work ethic .
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Its political inflexion contests the middle-class work ethic which is the main purpose of its message.
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We already know a little bit about their attendance history and their work ethics .
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To me, so much of it comes back to the work ethic and commitment.
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She had a real work ethic .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Judeo-Christian ethic
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the time, Gingrich said a speaker should step aside when questions about his ethics are being investigated by in Congress.
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Either that, or a different investment ethic prevails there.
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Furthermore, he admitted to having given the ethics panel untrue information when it investigated those projects.
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It was my introduction to the ethics of science.
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Perhaps worse, where it does give lip-service to ethics, it is to an ethics divorced from moral sensitivity.
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Suddenly the climate was imbued with a new Puritan ethic , not the work ethic but the breeding ethic.
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This insight into the ethics of international trade comes from the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, a research organization.