PRACTITIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practitioner mean? 

• PRACTITIONER (noun)
  The noun PRACTITIONER has 1 sense:

1. someone who practices a learned profession

  Familiarity information: PRACTITIONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTITIONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who practices a learned profession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

practician; practitioner

Hypernyms ("practitioner" is a kind of...):

professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "practitioner"):

clinician (a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments)

Gongorist (a practitioner of the affected elegant style of the Spanish poet Gongora)

homeopath; homoeopath (a practitioner of homeopathy)

 Context examples 

This energy is said to be balanced or made stronger by practitioners who pass their hands over, or gently touch, a patient's body.

(Healing touch, NCI Dictionary)

Method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered.

(Fee for Service Payment Method, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The practitioner guides the patient into a semi-hypnotic state by verbally introducing positive and soothing images.

(Imagery Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Measurements should be objective on the part of the practitioner, based on subjective information from the patient.

(Pain Assessment, NCI Thesaurus)

A doctor; a person who has been educated, trained, and licensed to practice the art and science of medicine; a practitioner of medicine, as contrasted with a surgeon.

(Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

But I declined these offers; being already aware that there were plenty of such covert practitioners in existence, and considering the Commons quite bad enough, without my doing anything to make it worse.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I fancy it’s some local practitioner,” said the Colonel.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An individual, such as a physician, nurse practitioner or other health care professional, who takes responsibility for a subject's care.

(Clinician, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Fellow of American College of Surgeons is a member of a society of surgical medicine practitioners.

(Fellow of American College of Surgeons, NCI Thesaurus)

A nurse practitioner who practices in acute or primary care.

(Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)