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Practitioner definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRACTI'TIONER, n. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly in law or medicine.
1. One who does any thing customarily or habitually.
2. One that practices sly or dangerous arts.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who practices a learned profession [syn: practitioner, practician]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: alteration of earlier practician, from Middle English (Scots) pratician, from Middle French practicien, from pratique practice Date: 1535 1. one who practices; especially one who practices a profession 2. Christian Science an authorized healer

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person practising a profession, esp. medicine (general practitioner). Etymology: obs. practitian = PRACTICIAN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Practitioner Prac*ti"tion*er, n. [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(practitioners) Doctors are sometimes referred to as practitioners or medical practitioners. (FORMAL) N-COUNT see also GP

Moby Thesaurus

actor, agent, architect, author, creator, doer, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, maker, medium, mover, operant, operative, operator, performer, perpetrator, prime mover, producer, subject, worker