private practice

1. 1.

   the practice of a profession independently and not as an employee

   “he teaches at the medical school but his fortune came from private practice”

   “lawyers in private practice are in business and must make a profit to survive”

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Questions about private practice

What does private practice mean?

private practice means "the practice of a profession independently and not as an employee".

Is private practice a common word?

private practice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.