From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnormnorm /nɔːm $ nɔːrm/ ●○○AWL noun [countable]1USUALLYthe usual or normal situation, way of doing something etcbe/become the norm
Short term contracts are now the norm with some big companies.
Joyce’s style of writing was a striking departure from the literary norm.2 →norms3 →the normExamples from the Corpusnorm• Yet, again there is the contrast between personalinclinations and social norms.• This is not uncommon in the SouthEast and well within the building societynorm of two and a half times income.• And the gospel for so long speaks the correctopposition to what has become the standard and the norm.• Peerevaluation within the teams has become the norm.• It is the norm that volunteering in sport does not stop out of season.• I am told this is the norm.• It is those norms, in turn, that create a trustingenvironment within which commerce and trade can take place.• They provide social contexts for shaping the day-to-daybehaviour or adolescents, and encourageconformity to norms and values.be/become the norm• Three-and four-flight days again became the norm for him, more hours above the earth than on it.• Driver-only buses have become the norm, and may have increased privatised profitability, but they've decreasedtrafficflow.• Contradictorysignals from the government have become the norm.• In a decade it may be the norm.• Certainly, organised, structureddelinquentgangs do not appear to be the norm in Britain today.• These are more innocentdiversions than used to be the norm.• Eventually the price of such devices will fall and PostScriptrecorders will become the norm - just as they have with typesetting.From Longman Business Dictionarynormnorm /nɔːmnɔːrm/ noun [singular]the usual and expected situation, way of doing something etcPrivate businesses award an average of 0.35% commission compared with the industry’s norm of 0.5%.Budget surpluses are now the norm.Originnorm(1800-1900)Latinnorma“tool for checking straight lines and angles”
