does that mean "modus operandi?" can you please explain it further?
2006-06-29 12:53:28 · 11 answers · asked by Isaac Hayes 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Modus operandi (often used in the abbreviated form MO) is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as "mode of operation." The plural is modi operandi ("modes 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 English in a non-criminal sense to describe someone's habits or manner of working, the method of operating or functioning.
A criminal's MO may also be used in offender profiling, where it can be used to find clues to the perpetrator's psychology.
The method of operation or MO is sometimes confused with a criminal's "signature". While a criminal's MO may change over time, his or her signature will usually stay the same.
2006-06-29 12:57:12 · answer #1 · answered by vern2618 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
M.O. is an abbreviation of the Latin, Modus Operandi. Translated it means, Method of Operation or how someone does things. Frequently used when dealing with criminals.
2006-06-29 12:58:19 · answer #2 · answered by Bob S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
M.O. stands for modus operandi, and it means their usual way of doing things
2006-06-29 12:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by tye_dyedfan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually it stands for Modus Operandi...(Operating Method)
2006-06-29 12:55:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A persons special way of doing things. Usually it refers to criminals.
2006-06-29 14:38:24 · answer #5 · answered by karen wonderful 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
latin for "method of operation", a criminal detective term referring to the way a criminal, especially a serial criminal, tends to usually or regularly commit his crime, more generally used to refer to the way a person tends to behave given a certain set of circumstances
2006-06-30 02:07:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
method of execution. means the persons thought processes that got them to that state.
2006-06-29 12:55:15 · answer #7 · answered by Man_With_No_Name 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
method of operation
2006-06-29 13:38:40 · answer #8 · answered by robling_dwrdesign 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
motive it is the motive of a crime
2006-06-29 12:56:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means....................Move Over...........Tom Cruise, cause CHEF is BACK IN TOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-06-29 15:06:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋