ethics

Definition

Examples

All employees must complete a training course on business ethics every year.

Word Family

Synonyms

• moralityconcern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
• moralsmotivation based on ideas of right and wrong
• principlesa basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

Collocations

• Easy work ethics
  to work ethics, meaning to exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
• Medium code of ethics
  to code of ethics, meaning to attach a code to
• Hard business ethics breach
  describing business ethics breach (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)
• Very Hard uncompromising adherence to medical ethics
  describing uncompromising adherence to medical ethics (not making concessions)