practice
habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
habit; custom: It is not the practice here for men to wear long hair.
repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency: Practice makes perfect.
condition arrived at by experience or exercise: She refused to play the piano, because she was out of practice.
the action or process of performing or doing something: to put a scheme into practice;the shameful practices of a blackmailer.
the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine: She plans to set up practice in her hometown.
the business of a professional person: The doctor wanted his daughter to take over his practice when he retired.
Law. the established method of conducting legal proceedings.
Archaic. plotting; intrigue; trickery.
Usually practices. Archaic. intrigues; plots.
to perform or do habitually or usually: to practice a strict regimen.
to follow or observe habitually or customarily: to practice one's religion.
to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation: to practice law.
to perform or do repeatedly in order to acquire skill or proficiency: to practice the violin.
to train or drill (a person, animal, etc.) in something in order to give proficiency.
to do something habitually or as a practice.
to pursue a profession, especially law or medicine.
to exercise oneself by repeated performance in order to acquire skill: to practice at shooting.
Archaic. to plot or conspire.
Origin of practice
1- Also British, prac·tise (for defs. 11-19) .
synonym study For practice
Other words for practice
Other words from practice
- prac·tic·er, noun
- mis·prac·tice, noun, verb, mis·prac·ticed, mis·prac·tic·ing.
- non·prac·tice, noun
- outpractice, verb (used with object), out·prac·ticed, out·prac·tic·ing.
- o·ver·prac·tice, verb (used with object), o·ver·prac·ticed, o·ver·prac·tic·ing.
- pre·prac·tice, verb, pre·prac·ticed, pre·prac·tic·ing.
- re·prac·tice, verb (used with object), re·prac·ticed, re·prac·tic·ing.
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How to use practice in a sentence
The team then started holding normal practices and meeting in person, but an outbreak halted all in-person activities for nearly two weeks.
Navy will host Memphis and Tulsa to make up games postponed by coronavirus issues | Kareem Copeland | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostIf you want to make a list or practice sketching, the notebook has got some options for you.
This $44 reusable smart notebook connects to the cloud | Stack Commerce | November 20, 2020 | Popular-ScienceMy father took the entire summer off from his legal practice.
The legislation also may prevent companies from employing price discrimination practices, in which the same products are sold at different prices based on the user.
Beijing’s new antitrust rules have cost Chinese tech giants $260 billion in two days | Grady McGregor | November 11, 2020 | FortuneRoughly 1,600 health care workers at 15 hospitals were assigned to either wear a medical mask at all times during their shift, to wear a two-layer cloth mask or to follow the hospital’s standard practice, which may or may not involve wearing a mask.
Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing. Here’s what it will take to gain control | Tina Hesman Saey | November 11, 2020 | Science News
The beaver is a persistent practicer of conservation and should not perish from the hills and mountains of our land.
In Beaver World | Enos Abijah MillsThe worthy Doctor, however, was sometimes the object, as well as the practicer of jokes and hoaxes.
We find her a practicer of the healing art; but at what age, or amid what worldly circumstances, is all unknown.
Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism | Allen PutnamHe was a polished courtier, and a writer on, rather than a practicer of, good manners.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellHe was a connoisseur of great actions, not a practicer of them.
The Art of Letters | Robert Lynd
British Dictionary definitions for practice
/ (ˈpræktɪs) /
a usual or customary action or proceeding: it was his practice to rise at six; he made a practice of stealing stamps
repetition or exercise of an activity in order to achieve mastery and fluency
the condition of having mastery of a skill or activity through repetition (esp in the phrases in practice, out of practice)
the exercise of a profession: he set up practice as a lawyer
the act of doing something: he put his plans into practice
the established method of conducting proceedings in a court of law
the US spelling of practise
Origin of practice
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with practice
In addition to the idioms beginning with practice
- practice makes perfect
- practice what you preach
also see:
- in practice
- make a practice of
- out of practice
- put into practice
- sharp practice
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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