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practitioner meaning

EN[prækˈtɪʃənə] [prækˈtɪʃənər]
WPractitioner
  • A practitioner is someone who is qualified or registered to practice a particular occupation, profession, or religion. Practitioners who specialise in a particular area may be referred to as a specialist or advanced practitioner.
  • Practitioner may refer to:
  • People
  • Justice practitioner
  • Medical practitioner
  • Mental health professional
  • Solitary practitioner, in Wicca and Paganism
  • Theatre practitioner
  • Other
  • The Practitioner, a medical journal

    Definition of practitioner in English Dictionary

  • NounPLpractitioners
    1. A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
      1. The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
    2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
      1. (dated) A sly or artful person.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Whoever has not abandoned desire for fruits of action and still have self-centered objectives can never become a Yogi or a practitioner of spiritual communion through work. ‎
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
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        1. en practitioners
        2. en practitionership
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of practitioner for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "practitioner" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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