Usually means: Repeated action to improve skill.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word practice:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. practice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. practice: Merriam-Webster
  3. practice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. practice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. practice: Collins English Dictionary
  6. practice: Vocabulary.com
  7. Practice, practice: Wordnik
  8. practice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. practice: Wiktionary
  10. practice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. practice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. practice: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. practice: Dictionary.com
  14. practice (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. practice: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Practice (learning method), Practice (social theory), Practice, The Practice (TV series), The Practice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Practice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. practice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. practice: Rhymezone
  20. practice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. practice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. practice: FreeDictionary.org
  23. practice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. practice: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. practice: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. practice: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. practice: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. practice: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. practice: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. practice: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. practice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. practice: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Practice (learning method), practice: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. practice: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. practice: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See practiced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
noun:  An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
noun:  (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
noun:  (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
noun:  The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
noun:  A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
noun:  Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
noun:  (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
noun:  Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
noun:  (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
verb:  (now US) Alternative spelling of practise [(transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.]

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