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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Practitioner

/prăk-tĭsh'-ən-ẽr/ · Prac·ti·tion·er · IPA /pɹækˈtɪʃənəɹ/
01 n. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
  1. 1.
    One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
  2. 2.
    One who does anything customarily or habitually.
  3. 3.
    A sly or artful person.
Phrases & compounds
General practitioner — See under General, 2.