Entry Word: conduct

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something <the president was happy to leave the conduct of foreign affairs to his secretary of state>

Synonyms administration, control, direction, governance, government, guidance, handling, management, operation, oversight, regulation, running, superintendence, supervision

Related Words care, custody, guardianship, protection, tutelage; engineering, machination, manipulation

2 the way or manner in which one conducts oneself <a child who has often been scolded for poor conduct in public> — see behavior