system of rules

Questions about system of rules

What does system of rules mean?

system of rules means "a complex of methods or rules governing behavior".

What is another word for system of rules?

Close synonyms include system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is system of rules a common word?

system of rules is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.