Meaning & use
practitioner
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A person who works in a particular profession, especially medicine or law.
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The clinic employs several general practitioners who see patients daily.
As a longtime practitioner of yoga, she teaches classes every weekend.
A note on using this word
Practitioner is often paired with a modifier, as in "medical practitioner" or "sole practitioner," to specify the field.
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