Other forms: practitioners
A practitioner is somebody who works in a profession or an art. A general practitioner, a legal practitioner, a sole practitioner.
In British medicine a general practitioner is the family doctor, and GP is what everybody says. The word covers doing rather than studying, which is why it appears in phrases contrasting practitioners with theorists and academics.
1nounpractitionerSomebody who works in a profession or an art.
“She is a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine.”
practitioner is a person.
From practician, from Old French practicien, from Latin practicus, from Greek praktikos, fit for action.
From practician + -er. Formerly practicioner for practicianer, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA