What's the difference between custom and mores?

Custom


Definition:

  • (n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
  • (n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
  • (n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
  • (n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
  • (v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.
  • (v. t.) To supply with customers.
  • (v. i.) To have a custom.
  • (n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
  • (n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
  • (v. t.) To pay the customs of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (3) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (4) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (5) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
  • (6) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
  • (7) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
  • (8) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (9) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (10) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (11) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
  • (12) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (13) TalkTalk said customers should monitor their accounts over the coming months and report anything unusual to Action Fraud.
  • (14) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
  • (15) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
  • (16) Santander's new mortgage range complements this, putting our relationship with our customers at the heart of our business and ensuring they get the right mortgage for them – one they can afford and which meets their needs."
  • (17) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
  • (18) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
  • (19) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
  • (20) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."

Mores


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (2) Family policies, together with changes in corporate labour practices, can reinforce changing mores, leading to greater (and more effective) female workforce participation.
  • (3) The mores that encouraged consanguineous marriages had the lowest final lethal-gene frequencies.
  • (4) "Social mores have moved on from the way in which we were brought up, with the values that we had.
  • (5) Peter Hyman, Blair's former speechwriter turned teacher and the coalition's most high-profile convert yet, plans to open a non-selective, all-ability, innovative comprehensive in the East End of London in 2012; while Sajid Hussain, the Oxford-educated son of a Kashmiri-born bus driver, hopes his King's Science Academy in Bradford will enable students to navigate their way through the strange mores of the English elite .
  • (6) Deep changes in mores and in the way infants are cared for occurred in the second half of the XXth century.
  • (7) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
  • (9) Because of the licence fee, the BBC has always had to think more profoundly than commercial broadcasters about how its output fits with contemporary mores.
  • (10) But she is against this law, because if a woman is raped, she will be treated worse than the man who raped her.” The intensity of the so-called “black protests” has proved tricky for Law and Justice, which presents itself as the guardian of traditional values in a country beset by liberal notions of multiculturalism, relaxed social mores and restrictive political correctness, but which remains mindful of the risks of alienating mainstream public opinion.
  • (11) Eight mores officers under investigation have been placed on administrative leave and have had their security clearance suspended.
  • (12) Normalising the more hardcore activities of pornography is a danger of the access, affordability and the anonymity of online sexual content, she says, but it's impossible to extract the internet's unique impact on the changing sexual mores when so many other media and corporate factors are at play.
  • (13) In peacetime, however, they resonated with a new generation of radicals – though he was not at ease with all the mores of the 1960s.
  • (14) Another Nigerian admirer of the novel spoke of its depiction of sexual mores and asked if there was any hope for progress in the assumptions about "gender relations" in Nigeria.
  • (15) Follow-up analyses of variance (ANOVAs) revealed a difference between anesthetists and community health nurses on one factor (parental sexual mores).
  • (16) The knowledge which geneticists have gained and will gain in future will raise numerous legal and ethical problems which will have to be debated and resolved within the parameters of the prevailing boni mores.
  • (17) A drug-oriented society promotes drug treatment of illness but responds with restrictive legislation and mores when faced with serious drug abuse by the populace.
  • (18) And, if we're being blunt, Peggy is a considerably more sophisticated, funnier and insightful about comparative social mores.
  • (19) Although just 100 miles from Delhi, the village is cut off from the hustle and mores of modern life.
  • (20) Educational efforts must address women and bisexual men who do not perceive themselves to be at risk for HIV infection and should be specifically designed for the mores of different racial and ethnic groups.