0 usual: --
1 traditional: --
[ + to infinitive ] In my village, it is customary for a girl to take her mother's name.
2 reflecting or showing a way of behaving or a belief that has been established for a long time among a group of people: --
3 usual: --
Redemption relates to the customary practice of land-sales containing buyback arrangements, some of surprisingly long duration.
As is customary, we identify types and terms which differ only by renamings of their bound variables.
The official law makes no reference to this customary relationship.
He hoped that no changes would be made to the old customary estates and tendered a proviso to that effect.
His sample spanned ten customary sections occupied by seventeen lineages and four mixed groups.
In routine work it is customary for observers to collect a sample of 50 eggs off the plants of record, brushing off those uncollected.
On one or two occasions he has even ventured beyond the customary conjunctions to use the conjunctive adverb however.
Rather, there was an endless variation in the degree to which customary practices were observed.
