Usually means: Establishing standards for acceptable behavior.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word normative:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. normative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. normative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. normative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. normative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. normative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Normative, normative: Wordnik
  7. normative: Wiktionary
  8. normative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. normative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. normative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. normative: Dictionary.com
  12. Normative (disambiguation), Normative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. normative: Rhymezone
  14. normative: Free Dictionary
  15. normative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. normative: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  17. normative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  2. normative: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Normative: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Normative: Unicode Glossary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See normatively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
adjective:  Conforming to a norm or norms.
adjective:  Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
noun:  A regulation imposed to preserve a norm.

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