# practitioner

Pronunciation: US say "prak-TISH-uh-nur" /pɹækˈtɪʃənəɹ/; UK say "prak-TISH-uh-nuh" /pɹækˈtɪʃənə/

## Noun

1. Someone who works in a profession or skilled art, especially medicine or law.
   - Simple: Someone who works in a job that needs special training, like a doctor or a lawyer.
   - _Experienced practitioners in medicine often mentor those just starting out._
   - _He built his reputation as a skilled practitioner of constitutional law._
2. A person who does something regularly or as a customary habit.
   - Simple: A person who does something regularly, often as a habit.
   - _She has been a lifelong practitioner of meditation since her teens._
   - _Practitioners of traditional crafts pass their skills to the next generation._

## Noun

3. A sly or crafty person who uses cunning and deception. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A clever, sneaky person who uses tricks to fool others.
   - _The wily practitioner talked his way out of every debt he owed._
   - _Townsfolk warned newcomers about the cunning practitioner who haunted the docks._

## Origin

This word was formerly "practicioner," from an earlier "*practicianer," formed from "practician" plus the suffix "-er": the ending being unnecessarily added, as also happens in "musicianer."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/practitioner (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).