Hypertext Webster Gateway: "practitioner"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift.
{General practitioner}. See under {General}, 2.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
practitioner
n : someone who practices a learned profession [syn: {practician}]
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