Dictionary Entry
practitioners
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/præk-tish-uh-nurz/Word FrequencyCommon (4.6)Curriculum FrequencyLess common (1)A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
In a Sentence
“The article includes practitioners to support a careful argument.”
Published Usage Examples
“The medium of comics has a Myth of the Fall that [Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics] touches on, and that one finds elsewhere among critics, advocates and certain practitioners, and goes something like this:”
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Origin
Late Middle English, from Old French practicien, from Latin practicus, from Greek praktikos ‘practical’.
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Poetry examples for “practitioners”
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