Custom may refer to:
- Custom (law) or customary law, laws and regulations established by common practice
- Custom (guitar), a model of guitar made by Fender
- Custom (musician), stage name for New York based musician Duane Lavold
- Customs, a tariff on imported or exported goods
- Customization, anything made or modified to personal taste
- Custom car
- Kimber Custom, a type of pistol
- Norm (sociology), a rule that is socially enforced
- Convention (norm), a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted rules, norms, standards or criteria, often taking the form of a custom
- Tradition ways and culture passed down through the centuries
- Patronage, as in I'll take my custom (i. In Law, custom can be described as the established patterns of behavior that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting The Fender Custom (or Maverick) was a short-lived model released by the CBS -owned Fender in 1969 Custom (also known as Duane Lavold is a Canadian-born New York-based rock musician best known for his song "Hey Mister" Customs is an Authority or agency in a Country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods A custom car is a passenger vehicle that has been modified in either of the following two ways The Kimber Custom is a model 1911 Semi-automatic pistol. It is designed manufactured and distributed by Kimber Manufacturing Inc Social norms have been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values beliefs attitudes and behaviors A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted Standards norms social norms or criteria, often taking the form of The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem acc of traditio which means "a giving up delivering up surrendering" and is used in a number of Patronage is the support encouragement privilege and often financial aid given by a person or an organization e. "business") elsewhere!
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custom
-noun
- Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
- Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
- (law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
- (obsolete) Familiar acquaintance; familiarity.
- The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
- (plurale tantum) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
-adjective
- made in a different way from usual, specially to fit one's needs
-verb
- (obsolete) (transitive) To make familiar; to accustom.
- (obsolete) (transitive) To supply with customers.
- (obsolete) (transitive) To pay the customs of.
- (obsolete) (intransitive) To have a custom.
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