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ha·bit·u·al /hə-'bi-chə-wəl/ adj1: practicing or acting in some manner by force of custom, habit, or addictiona habitual drunkard2: being such a specified number of times or with designated regularityhabitual offenders3: involved in the practice of a person's usual behaviorher habitual residence
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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according to habit, accustomary, accustomed, automatic, chronic, common, commonplace, confirmed, constant, consuetudinary, continual, customary, daily, established, expected, familiar, fixed, frequent, general, ingrained, inveterate, inveteratus, natural, normal, ordinary, periodic, periodical, perpetual, prevalent, recurrent, recurring, regular, repeated, rooted, routine, set, standard, sustained, traditional, typical, usitatus, usual, wonted
associated concepts: habitual cohabitation, habitual criminal, habitual cruel and inhuman treatment, habitual insanity, habitual intemperance, habitual intoxication, habitual offender, habitual use, habitual violator, predicate felon, recidivist
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accustomed (customary), boiler plate, chronic, constant, conventional, customary, daily, familiar (customary), frequent, general, household (familiar), ingrained, inveterate, mundane, normal (regular), ordinary, orthodox, periodic, prevailing (current), prevalent, regular (conventional), repeated, routine, systematic, traditional, typical, usual
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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adj.Customary, usual, regular.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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Regular or customary; usual.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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Regular or customary; usual.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.