practitioner

American  

[prak-tish-uh-ner] / prækˈtɪʃ ə nər /

noun

• practitioners
  plural

1. a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc..

   a medical practitioner.

2. a person who practices something specified.

3. Christian Science. a person authorized to practice healing.

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practitioner British  

/ prækˈtɪʃənə /

noun

1. a person who practises a profession or art

2. Christian Science a person authorized to practise spiritual healing

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• practitioners
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of practitioner

1535–45; alteration of practician ( practic + -ian ) + -er ¹

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Explanation

A practitioner is an expert who uses that knowledge as part of a profession. Every yoga practitioner started by attending an introductory class. In practitioner, you can see the word practice, which everyone says will make you perfect. Practice can also mean the clients, daily activities, and location where a professional such as a doctor works. So a practitioner is someone who has learned everything about his or her field and is actively working in that field. So don't worry about going to the doctor — you won't be practice for this practitioner.

Example Sentences

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practitioner practitioners

Dr David Sands, a human-companion animal practitioner at the Animal Behavioural Clinic in Chorley, Lancashire, said tigers were predators that would naturally attack.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

As with so many land mines in our broken healthcare system, having a reliable and trustworthy practitioner to consult and query regarding the reality of compounded medications is the best solution.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Beyond its neo-futuristic design, the BioCharger is made up of four mechanisms that “work together intensely,” says Avital Sarir, a practitioner and client coordinator at Oxynergy2, a Hyperbaric Oxygen Center that has its own BioCharger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

An estimated one in seven people have used AI for a health-related question instead of seeing a general practitioner.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

So he sat down and, in his free evenings and weekends, wrote an eight-hundred-page textbook on the subject, painstakingly reviewing the available evidence for the most common problems a general practitioner might encounter.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The researchers had access to a special version of Claude Opus 4.8, made available to qualified cybersecurity practitioners, and they asked it to write code that would exploit this bug in a cyberattack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

As Murano island’s glass factories face exorbitant energy costs, a shrinking pool of skilled apprentices and competition from counterfeits, the Seguso brand remains one of the last practitioners of the art form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Hearings for the Nottingham Inquiry began in February, and heard evidence from more than 100 witnesses, including police officers, NHS mental health staff practitioners, the survivors of the attacks and the bereaved families.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Countless pundits, pedestrians, practitioners and parents are argue over the merits of the case, both online and IRL.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Ask yourselves what is it that Mercerism does. Well, if we’re to believe its many practitioners, the experience fuses—”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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