PRACTITIONER

practitioner, practician

(noun) someone who practices a learned profession

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

practitioner (plural practitioners)

A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.

One who does anything customarily or habitually.

(dated) A sly or artful person.

Source: Wiktionary


Prac*ti"tion*er, n. Etym: [From Practician.]

1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. Crabbe.

2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.

3. A sly or artful person. Whitgift. General practitioner. See under General, 2.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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