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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, noun [From {Practician}.]
1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. --Crabbe.
2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift.
{General practitioner}. See under {General}, 2.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
practitioner
noun: someone who practices a learned profession [syn: {practician}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "practitioner": actor, agent, architect, author, creator, doer, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, maker, medium, mover, operant, operative, operator, performer, perpetrator, prime mover, producer, subject, worker
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