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say it: PRAK-tuhs
practice is a noun and verb meaning "a customary way of operation or behavior". It carries 10 recorded senses.
a customary way of operation or behavior
“it is their practice to give annual raises”
“they changed their dietary pattern”
systematic training by multiple repetitions
“practice makes perfect”
translating an idea into action
“a hard theory to put into practice”
“differences between theory and praxis of communism”
the exercise of a profession
“the practice of the law”
“I took over his practice when he retired”
knowledge of how something is usually done
“it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner”
engage in a rehearsal (of)
performing arts
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for practice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.