accepted practice• Besides, a refusal would seem as if she placed too much importance on an accepted practice.• Everything about Shanti's adoption was against accepted practice.• I realized in my reaction to all this how Westernized I had become, for this was very much an accepted practice.• To depart substantially from them invites question unless it can be demonstrated that such departureconforms to accepted practice by rationalanalysis.• It was accepted practice for employers to admit women to schemes at older ages than men - 30 was not uncommon.• For example, it may become tacitly accepted practice in a market exactly to match the price changes of the largest firm.• Bigamy, for example, is a serious crime in Britain yet it is normal and accepted practice in other countries.• Where there is only one accepted practice, then following this practice will not amount to negligence.