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ways
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ways has 1 sense
- ways(n = noun.artifact) shipway, slipway - structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired; Array is a part of shipyard
is a kind of construction, structure
ROGET THESAURUS
ways
Conduct
N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record, course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding, role, process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating, method, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.
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