1 (ethics) [pl.] moral principles that control or influence a person's behaviour:
professional / business / medical ethics * to draw up a code of ethics * He began to question the ethics of his position.
2 [sing.] a system of moral principles or rules of behaviour:
a strongly defined work ethic * the Protestant ethic
3 (ethics) [U] the branch of philosophy that deals with moral principles
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