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Modus operandi (often used in the abbreviated form MO) is a Latin phrase, approximately translatable as “mode of operation.” It is used in police work to describe a criminal’s characteristic patterns and style of work. The term is also commonly used in the United States of America in a non-criminal sense to describe someone’s habits.
