practices

Noun

practice (usually uncountable, plural practices)

1. (usually) Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
   • Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) training, rehearsing, rehearsal, dry run, trial, workout

   Synonyms:

   practicing, drill, exercise, training, rehearsing, rehearsal, dry run, trial, workout

   1. (usually) An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
      • Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy.
   2. (usually) The state of being proficient due to repetition of a skill.
      • I was rusty, but after a few months, I got back into practice.
2. (especially, usually) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
   • Which is the most demanding? I think that my practice as an artist is 'stronger' because it is the practice that best fuels and balances myself and that generates new knowledge for my other work as both arts educator and creative arts therapist.2016, Raphael Vella, Artist-Teachers in Context: International Dialogues, Springer, →ISBN, page 53
   1. (especially, usually) Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
      • He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...
   2. (especially, usually) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.

See all 11 meanings of practice