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for practitioner
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, n. [From Practician.]
1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any
art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
--Crabbe.
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2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
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3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift.
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General practitioner. See under General, 2.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
practitioner
n 1: someone who practices a learned profession [syn:
practitioner, practician]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "practitioner":
actor, agent, architect, author, creator, doer, executant,
executor, executrix, fabricator, maker, medium, mover, operant,
operative, operator, performer, perpetrator, prime mover, producer,
subject, worker
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