- a person who works in a profession, especially medicine or law
- dental practitioners
- a qualified practitioner
- a person who regularly does a particular activity, especially one that requires skill
- one of the greatest practitioners of science fiction
Word Originmid 16th cent.: extension of obsolete practitian, variant of practician, from Old French practicien, from practique ‘practical’, via late Latin from Greek praktikos ‘concerned with action’, from prattein ‘do, act’.
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