WordNet
n. a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group [syn: code of conduct]
Usage examples of "code of behavior".
Fundamentally, honor was itself a debt, a code of behavior, a promise, something inside yourself that you owed to the others who saw it in you.
But even for him, that was more a matter of good manners (and of making concessions to an inexplicable human code of behavior because it was important to his person) than because he saw any real sense in it.
It is a code of behavior, a set of duties and responsibilities for men, a way of thinking and approaching life.
But I'm not going to listen to your defense of a code of behavior no intelligent man could subscribe to.
Modern-day naguals, in an effort to avoid paying this exorbitant price in pain, had developed a code of behavior called the warrior's way, or the impeccable action, which prepared sorcerers by enhancing their sobriety and thoughtfulness.
Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behavior which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.
His impulse, when he met a man whose code of behavior was not the ordinary code, was to chat with him and extract his point of view.
Since Jeremy wouldn't have sugarcoated my arrangement, Clay had obviously reinterpreted the facts through his own filter of logic, a logic as indecipherable as his code of behavior and ethics.