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Definitions for Practice

[1] habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
[2] habit; custom: It is not the practice here for men to wear long hair.
[3] repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency: Practice makes perfect.
[4] condition arrived at by experience or exercise: She refused to play the piano, because she was out of practice.
[5] the action or process of performing or doing something: to put a scheme into practice; the shameful practices of a blackmailer.
[6] the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine: She plans to set up practice in her hometown.
[7] the business of a professional person: The doctor wanted his daughter to take over his practice when he retired.
[8] Law . the established method of conducting legal proceedings.
[9] Archaic . plotting; intrigue; trickery.
[10] Usually practices. Archaic . intrigues; plots.
[11] to perform or do habitually or usually: to practice a strict regimen.
[12] to follow or observe habitually or customarily: to practice one's religion.
[13] to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation: to practice law.
[14] to perform or do repeatedly in order to acquire skill or proficiency: to practice the violin.
[15] to train or drill (a person, animal, etc.) in something in order to give proficiency.
[16] to do something habitually or as a practice.
[17] to pursue a profession, especially law or medicine.
[18] to exercise oneself by repeated performance in order to acquire skill: to practice at shooting.
[19] Archaic . to plot or conspire.
[20] a usual or customary action or proceeding it was his practice to rise at six ; he made a practice of stealing stamps
[21] repetition or exercise of an activity in order to achieve mastery and fluency
[22] the condition of having mastery of a skill or activity through repetition (esp in the phrases in practice, out of practice )
[23] the exercise of a profession he set up practice as a lawyer
[24] the act of doing something he put his plans into practice
[25] the established method of conducting proceedings in a court of law
[26] the US spelling of practise

Words related to Practice

use, proceeding, form, habit, process, system, rule, method, tradition, discipline, training, study, experience, preparation, drill, action, operation, career, work, hone

Words nearby Practice

practical joke, practical nurse, practical reason, practicalism, practically, practice, practice makes perfect, practice what you preach, practice-teach, practiced, practicing

Origin of Practice

1375–1425; (v.) late Middle English practisen, practizen (< Middle French pra(c)tiser ) < Medieval Latin prāctizāre, alteration of prācticāre, derivative of prāctica practical work < Greek prāktikḗ noun use of feminine of prāktikós practic; see -ize; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.

Other words from Practice

prac·tic·er , noun
mis·prac·tice , noun, verb, mis·prac·ticed, mis·prac·tic·ing.
non·prac·tice , noun
out·prac·tice , 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.

Word origin for Practice

C16: from Medieval Latin practicāre to practise, from Greek praktikē practical science, practical work, from prattein to do, act

Synonyms for Practice

form, habit, method, proceeding, process, rule, system, tradition, use, convention, custom, fashion, habitude, manner, mode, praxis, trick, usage, usefulness, utility, way, wont, convenance