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• practice — practicer, n. /prak tis/, n., v., practiced, practicing. n. 1. habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice. 2. habit; custom: It is not the practice here for men to wear long hair. 3. repeated performance or systematic exercise… …   Universalium

• practice — The exercise of the profession of medicine or one of the allied health professions. [Mediev. L. practica, business, G. praktikos, pertaining to action] extramural p. delivery of health care services by university faculties or full time hospital… …   Medical dictionary

• practice — / præktɪs/ noun a way of doing things, a custom or habit ● His practice was to arrive at work at 7.30 and start counting the cash. ♦ restrictive practices ways of working which make people less free (such as when trade unions stop workers from… …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• Practice — Prac tice, n. [OE. praktike, practique, F. pratique, formerly also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? practical. See {Practical}, and cf. {Pratique}, {Pretty}.] 1. Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• 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

• Practice in Christianity — (also Training in Christianity) is a work by 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It was published on September 27, 1850 under the pseudonym Anti Climacus , the author of The Sickness Unto Death . Kierkegaard considered it to be his most… …   Wikipedia

• PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE — CIVIL Court Sessions The courts of three (judges) exercising jurisdiction in civil matters (see bet din ) held their sessions during the day, but – following Jethro s advice to Moses that judges should be available at all times (Ex. 18:22) – they …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• practice — 01. Your coach phoned to say there will be a team [practice] in the gym tomorrow after school. 02. Kwok Leung [practiced] his presentation for hours in order to get it perfect. 03. My cousin just opened a dental [practice] here in town. 04.… …   Grammatical examples in English

• 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 — {{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 — prac|tice1 [ præktıs ] noun *** 1. ) count or uncount occasions when you do something in order to become better at it, or the time you spend doing this: You will become a faster typist with practice. Waylans broke his wrist during practice and… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English