practitioner
Americannoun
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a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc..
a medical practitioner.
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a person who practices something specified.
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Christian Science. a person authorized to practice healing.
noun
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a person who practises a profession or art
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Christian Science a person authorized to practise spiritual healing
Etymology
Origin of practitioner
1535–45; alteration of practician ( practic + -ian ) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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Liberty’s practitioners provided medical legal evaluations, according to court documents.
From Los Angeles Times
London band Dry Cleaning has been one of the more notable practitioners of the genre in this decade.
If the pandemic pushed many general practitioners to quit, imagine the toll it took on emergency medicine.
From Salon
"We're not viewing this database as a finished tool. It's a foundation -- an invitation for scientists, practitioners and communities to co-create a fuller picture of how invisible biodiversity sustains our lives."
From Science Daily
In “Doc Martin,” Clunes played a brilliant London surgeon who develops a blood phobia and becomes a general practitioner in the Cornwall fishing village where he spent summers as a child.
From Los Angeles Times
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