transcription, транскрипция: [ præktɪs ]
( practices)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You can refer to something that people do regularly as a practice .
Some firms have cut workers’ pay below the level set in their contract, a practice that is illegal in Germany...
Gordon Brown has demanded a public inquiry into bank practices.
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2.
Practice means doing something regularly in order to be able to do it better. A practice is one of these periods of doing something.
She was taking all three of her daughters to basketball practice every day...
The defending world racing champion recorded the fastest time in a final practice today.
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3.
The work done by doctors and lawyers is referred to as the practice of medicine and law. People’s religious activities are referred to as the practice of a religion.
...the practice of internal medicine...
I eventually realized I had to change my attitude toward medical practice.
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4.
A doctor’s or lawyer’s practice is his or her business, often shared with other doctors or lawyers.
The new doctor’s practice was miles away from where I lived...
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5.
see also practise
6.
What happens in practice is what actually happens, in contrast to what is supposed to happen.
...the difference between foreign policy as presented to the public and foreign policy in actual practice...
In practice, workers do not work to satisfy their needs.
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7.
If something such as a procedure is normal practice or standard practice , it is the usual thing that is done in a particular situation.
It is normal practice not to reveal details of a patient’s condition...
The transcript is full of codewords, which is standard practice in any army.
PHRASE : v-link PHR
8.
If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
‘How’s your German?’—‘Not bad, but I’m out of practice.’
PHRASE : v-link PHR
9.
If you put a belief or method into practice , you behave or act in accordance with it.
Now that he is back, the prime minister has another chance to put his new ideas into practice...
PHRASE : V inflects