PRIVATE PRACTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does private practice mean? 

• PRIVATE PRACTICE (noun)
  The noun PRIVATE PRACTICE has 1 sense:

1. the practice of a profession independently and not as an employee

  Familiarity information: PRIVATE PRACTICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIVATE PRACTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of a profession independently and not as an employee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

lawyers in private practice are in business and must make a profit to survive

Hypernyms ("private practice" is a kind of...):

practice (the exercise of a profession)

 Context examples 

It may be remembered that after my marriage, and my subsequent start in private practice, the very intimate relations which had existed between Holmes and myself became to some extent modified.

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

Nurse educators work in various settings, including colleges/universities, community colleges, hospitals, nursing homes, private practice, etc.

(Nurse Educator, NCI Thesaurus)