0 a person or thing that is very closely connected with a particular quality: --
1 a name of a person or thing that is closely connected with a particular quality: --
He mentioned villages and towns whose names are bywords to those who enjoy their holidays in that delightful part of the world.
The private enterprise supervision of that organisation has not exactly become a byword for safety standards.
It does not mean that we should allow timidity to become the byword.
Consultation and partnership must be the bywords for a successful quality partnership.
I pointed out that for a century the name of the firm had been a byword for excellence in steelmaking.
They have paid sick and accident benefit, and medical men know that their contributions to hospitals are so generous that they have become a byword.
Our byword must be to improve consistently on it, not simply to run it down.
However, flexibility should not be a byword for a diminution of standards or of the protection of workers' rights.
