practice
IPA: prˈæktʌs
noun
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
verb
- (now US) Alternative spelling of practise [(transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.]
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Examples of "practice" in Sentences
- He resumed the practice of law in Clarion.
- Foreman practiced law in the District of Columbia.
- This law is practiced in all the countries of the world.
- He continued the practice of law in Attakapas and was a planter.
- He returned to Defiance in 1896 and continued the practice of law.
- He disdained the law and encouraged the revival of native practices.
- The ecclesiastical laws of Canute the Great also mention the practice.
- They practice in according to the ethics of the profession and to the law.
- In the colonies, masters tried to dissuade the practice of tribal customs.
- A key feature of the law was that the patronymic naming practice was abolished.