practitioner
pronunciation
How to pronounce practitioner in British English:
UK [prækˈtɪʃənə(r)]
How to pronounce practitioner in American English:
US [prækˈtɪʃənər]
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- Noun:
- someone who practices a learned profession
Word Origin
- practitioner (n.)
- 1540s, a hybrid formed from practitian "practitioner" (c. 1500, from French practicien, from Late Latin practicus "fit for action," see practice (v.)) on model of parishioner. Johnson has as a secondary sense "One who uses any sly or dangerous arts."
Example
- 1. Work locally with a real practitioner .
- 2. Keynes saw that market efficiency , in a practitioner 's sense , might be a force for economic instability .
- 3. As one practitioner put it , " we 're doing these things to combat the slowness of government . "
- 4. Physician assistants in america can do about 85 % of the work of a general practitioner , according to james cawley of george washington university .
- 5. I have no basic argument with the biomedical model , but I believe that , in speaking of the model with consumers , the practitioner must act as a translator .