practice
/ˈpɹæktɪs/ noun A1- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill. · Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) training, rehearsing, rehearsal, dry run, trial, workout· He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition. · Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy.
- The state of being proficient due to repetition of a skill. · I was rusty, but after a few months, I got back into practice.
- The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- The observance of religious duties that an spiritual institution requires of its members.
- The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. · This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice.
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Mind you, Rob Wright went home with Gertie Pye from the practice night before last.
He had come into the kitchen, in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening, and had sat down in the woodbox corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of the fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice of “The Fairy Queen” in the sitting room.
I’m going to practice my recitations in the garret.
“I don’t approve of children’s getting up concerts and racing about to practices.
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