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ground rules
Idioms and Phrases
Basic procedures of conduct, as in The press secretary sets the ground rules for all of the President's press conferences . The term comes from baseball, where it refers to specific rules for a particular ballpark, which are based on special conditions such as a very high outfield fence or a field obstruction of some kind. It began to be transferred to more general use in the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
“There are going to be some ground rules,” he said.
In 2023, the Recording Academy laid out ground rules for how music can incorporate artificial intelligence and still be eligible for awards.
First, the ground rules: you stick to a healthy diet with no cheat meals or alcohol.
“It’s a church and sanctuary, and we want it to be respected,” she told the audience in Spanish before laying out the ground rules.
As politicians work to create new laws to put guardrails on the fast-growing industry, some companies and talent are suing AI companies in hopes that courts can set ground rules.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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