Practitioner Definition

prăk-tĭshə-nər
practitioners
noun
practitioners
A person who practices a particular profession, art, etc.
General practitioner, nurse practitioner.
Webster's New World
A Christian Science healer.
Webster's New World
One who does anything customarily or habitually.
Wiktionary

(dated) A sly or artful person.

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Singular:
practitioner
Plural:
practitioners

Origin of Practitioner

  • Formerly practicioner for *practicianer, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration of practician from Old French practicien from practiser to practice practice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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