practice

noun

Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.
An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy.
The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
She ran a thriving medical practice.
The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving.
Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
That may work in theory, but will it work in practice?
The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice.
Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.

verb

To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
You should practise playing piano every day.
To repeat an activity in this way.
If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.
To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
She practised law for forty years before retiring.
To conspire.
To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
To make use of; to employ.
To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

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