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• make a practice of doing something — make a practice of (doing something) to do something regularly or as a habit. I don t make a practice of recommending restaurants, but this one is really special …   New idioms dictionary

• practice — prac‧tice [ˈprækts] noun 1. [uncountable] the work done by a particular profession, especially lawyers or doctors who are working for themselves rather than a public organization: • Mr. Barr returned to private law practice in the mid 1990s. •… …   Financial and business terms

• practice — noun 1 A SKILL a) (U) regular activity that you do in order to improve a skill: It takes hours of practice to learn to play the guitar. | With a little more practice you should be able to pass your test. b) (C) a period of time you spend training …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• practice — prac|tice W1S2 [ˈpræktıs] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(a skill)¦ 2 in practice 3¦(something done often)¦ 4¦(doctor/lawyer)¦ 5 be common/standard/normal practice 6 good/best/bad practice 7 put something into practice 8 be out of practice 9 practice makes perfect… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• practice — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 actual doing of sth VERB + PRACTICE ▪ put sth into ▪ I can t wait to put what I ve learned into practice. PREPOSITION ▪ in practice ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• practice — [[t]præ̱ktɪs[/t]] ♦♦ practices 1) N COUNT You can refer to something that people do regularly as a practice. Some firms have reached agreements to cut workers pay below the level set in their contract, a practice that is illegal in Germany...… …   English dictionary

• practice - practise — In British English, practice is a noun and practise is a verb. ◊ used as an uncount noun Practice involves doing something regularly in order to improve your ability at it. Skating s just a matter of practice. I help them with their music …   Useful english dictionary

• practice# — practice vb Practice, exercise, drill are comparable when they mean, as verbs, to perform or cause one to perform an act or series of acts repeatedly and, as nouns, such repeated activity or exertion. Practice fundamentally implies doing,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Doing the Honours — Episode no. Series 2 Episode 2 Written by Antony Jay Jonathan Lynn Produced by Peter Whitmore …   Wikipedia

• practice makes perfect — phrase used for saying that repeating an activity or doing it regularly makes you very good at it Thesaurus: practice and practising doing somethingsynonym Main entry: practice * * * used to convey that regular exercise of an activity or skill is …   Useful english dictionary

• practice — prac·tice n 1: the form and manner of conducting judicial and quasi judicial proceedings 2 a: the continuous exercise of a profession; also: the performance of services that are considered to require an appropriate license engaged in the… …   Law dictionary