best practice

noun

, Chiefly Business.

Often best practices. a procedure or set of procedures that is preferred or considered standard within an organization, industry, etc.:
The company adopted best practice in employee recruitment.
At the meeting we reviewed best practices for communicating with clients.
Their methodology was identified as a best practice.

best practice

First recorded in 1980–85; derived from an earlier (1905) sense “the best method, procedure, etc.”

But he did so anyway, “in the spirit of following best practice,” the review said.

It cherry-picks teachers, provides them with the right training, and shares best practice between schools.

A long-sweep 1⁄4 bend is used on work requiring the best practice.

I like it better than any other, and catching is the best practice I can have for that.

His condition is such that it is quite clearly not the best practice to put him in a cell and leave him there.

The best practice, using clean well-cared-for milk and draining at low temperature, produces a very attractive cheese.

For this reason the best practice is to apply barnyard manure to corn or grass the year before the potatoes are grown.

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