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practitioner

/pɹækˈtɪʃənəɹ/

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What does practitioner mean?

noun

  1. A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
  2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (dated) A sly or artful person.

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IPA pronunciation

/pɹækˈtɪʃənəɹ/

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Still, I repeat, there was a general impression that Lydgate was something rather more uncommon than any general practitioner in Middlemarch.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
But something of his originality appeared in the work of a much humbler practitioner, contemporary or very nearly contemporary with him.
Harry HoudiniMiracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc.Project Gutenberg ebook #435
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It is, in fact, as in the horse, the sheet-anchor of the practitioner in the majority of cases of an inflammatory character.
William YouattThe DogProject Gutenberg ebook #9478
It is a well known fact, with which every observing practitioner is familiar, that a silver plate at a temperature of 45 deg.
S. D. (Samuel Dwight) HumphreyAmerican Hand Book of the DaguerreotypeProject Gutenberg ebook #167