Meanings
nounbest practice (plural best practices)
plural best practices
- businessA well-defined procedure that is known to produce near-optimum results.
For the record: A best practice for account names is to use the organization's full name in the account name field—such as, Department of Usually Micro Managed Important Executive Secretaries.
2008, Joel Scott, David Lee, Scott Weiss, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 For Dummies, John Wiley, →ISBN, page 374
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 最佳實踐 /最佳实践
- 最佳實踐 /最佳实践 (zuìjiā shíjiàn)procedure for best results
Finnish paras käytäntö
- paras käytäntöprocedure for best results
French bonne pratique, bonnes pratiques
- bonne pratiqueprocedure for best results
- bonnes pratiquesprocedure for best results
German Best Practice, beste Vorgehensweise
- Best Practiceprocedure for best results
- beste Vorgehensweiseprocedure for best results
- beste Praxisprocedure for best results
- bewährte Praxisprocedure for best results
Indonesian praktik baik
- praktik baikprocedure for best results
Russian лу́чшая пра́ктика
- лу́чшая пра́ктика (lúčšaja práktika)procedure for best results
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