practitioners
- 1Plural of practitioner.
Experienced practitioners often disagree about the best treatment for chronic pain.
The conference brought together legal practitioners from across the region.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a simple -s, that carries every meaning of the singular. Most often it names professionals, especially in law or medicine, as in medical practitioners or legal practitioners. It can also mean people who do something habitually. An older use, people who are sly or artful, is now dated. The possessive puts the apostrophe after the s: practitioners' fees.
practitioners is a form of practitioner
practitioner, noun: Someone who works in a profession or skilled art, especially medicine or law. Full entry
- Forms
- practitionerpractitioners plural
- Spelling
- practitioner → practitioners: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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