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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ethic
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a code of practice/conduct/ethics (=rules for people in a particular profession or business)
▪ There is a strict code of conduct for doctors.
work ethic
▪ They instilled the work ethic into their children.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
medical
▪ The big beasts of medical ethics have been locking horns, the rationalists against the religious as usual.
new
▪ Suddenly the climate was imbued with a new Puritan ethic, not the work ethic but the breeding ethic.
professional
▪ The group may provide guidelines for behaviour such as a professional ethic or a code of conduct. 5.
▪ I was a lawyer, a professional man who worked within a set of professional ethics.
protestant
▪ It spread through the body and achieved chemically and pharmacologically what rationalism and the Protestant ethic sought to fulfill spiritually and ideologically.
▪ The good old Protestant work ethic.
■ NOUN
work
▪ Irvin developed his work ethic because of his father, who was a roofer.
▪ You come from a modesty culture. Work ethic, and all that.
▪ The good old Protestant work ethic.
▪ Its political inflexion contests the middle-class work ethic which is the main purpose of its message.
▪ We already know a little bit about their attendance history and their work ethics.
▪ To me, so much of it comes back to the work ethic and commitment.
▪ She had a real work ethic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the Judeo-Christian ethic
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the time, Gingrich said a speaker should step aside when questions about his ethics are being investigated by in Congress.
▪ Either that, or a different investment ethic prevails there.
▪ Furthermore, he admitted to having given the ethics panel untrue information when it investigated those projects.
▪ It was my introduction to the ethics of science.
▪ Perhaps worse, where it does give lip-service to ethics, it is to an ethics divorced from moral sensitivity.
▪ Suddenly the climate was imbued with a new Puritan ethic, not the work ethic but the breeding ethic.
▪ This insight into the ethics of international trade comes from the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, a research organization.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ethic

ethic \eth"ic\ ([e^]th"[i^]k), n.

  1. the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; as, the Puritan ethic.

    Syn: moral principle, value-system, value orientation.

  2. a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: ethical code.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ethic

late 14c., ethik "study of morals," from Old French etique "ethics, moral philosophy" (13c.), from Late Latin ethica, from Greek ethike philosophia "moral philosophy," fem. of ethikos "ethical," from ethos "moral character," related to ethos "custom" (see ethos). Meaning "moral principles of a person or group" is attested from 1650s.

Wiktionary
ethic

a. moral, relating to morals. n. 1 a set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual. 2 the morality of an action

WordNet
ethic
  1. n. the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; "the Puritan ethic"; "a person with old-fashioned values" [syn: moral principle, value-system, value orientation]

  2. a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct [syn: ethical code]

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Usage examples of "ethic".

Over in one corner, a bulbous Aalan was in animated conversation with a hermaphroditic CloBonner concerning ambisexual ethics.

He developed the pleasure ethic of Aristippus and combined it with the atom theory of Democritus.

Holding steadily in view the easy business ethic that had held sway in that day when arrogant lumber barons had built mansions such as Auk House.

In fact, it soon became evident that his code of ethics was deplorable, and Austin could only console himself with the thought that the real Mr Buskin was, no doubt, a most virtuous and respectable person who never gave Mrs Buskin--if there was one--any grounds for jealousy.

This manipulation of masses of people was an unforgivable violation of his cetic ethics.

I urge that our own company take the lead-first in establishing a detailing code of ethics, second in setting up a training and retraining program for us detail people.

Secondly, this doctrinal system seems to us equally irreconcilable with history and with ethics: it seems to trample on the surest convictions of reason and conscience, and spurn the clearest principles of nature and religion, to blacken and load the heart and doom of man with a mountain of gratuitous horror, and shroud the face and throne of God in a pall of wilful barbarity.

This question belongs primarily to ethics, or the science of right living, to which the educator must turn for his solution.

The Dawes Glee Club, the Dawes Bible Study Class, the Dawes Ethics Society, the Dawes Scottish Reel and Eightsome Group.

The Sentinels were something between Ephors and ombudsmen, and were supposed to represent the best of Shalnuksi business ethics.

A reconciliation between men will be ethically valid if they are reconciled within themselves and with each other to the principle of aloneness and reciprocity, to the principle that there can be no valid ethics for the man who has not assumed his aloneness.

From a plainer perspective, the men and women who worked the market exemplified, without varnish, a pragmatic materialism and even an exemplary work ethic.

The foliation I mentioned above, which replaced body hair, would have helped establish a new ethics, but Mr.

Answers to such questions, concluded Hai Gaon, could not be found in mere ethics or the Law.

He proposed to do it by replacing the general Rajasic movements of nature by the Sattwic There was no idea of practising morality in it, or of ethics.