Practitioner

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
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     3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift.
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     {General practitioner}. See under {General}, 2.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  practitioner
       n : someone who practices a learned profession [syn: {practician}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "practitioner":
     actor, agent, architect, author, creator, doer, executant,
     executor, executrix, fabricator, maker, medium, mover, operant,
     operative, operator, performer, perpetrator, prime mover, producer,
     subject, worker