practice
/ˈpɹæktɪs/ verb B2- 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 an habitual fashion.
- To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine). · She practised law for forty years before retiring.
- 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.
He/she/it practices · Past practiced · Past participle practiced · -ing form practicing
Verb forms
- Base form
- practice
- He/she/it
- practices
- Past
- practiced
- Past participle
- practiced
- -ing form
- practicing
From the library
And we’re going to learn a new song--Jane Andrews is practicing it up now; and Alice Andrews is going to bring a new Pansy book next week and we’re all going to read it out loud, chapter about, down by the brook.
Roylott then abandoned his attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran.
My practice is never very absorbing.”
The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.
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