Synonyms for practice
ˈpræk tɪsprac·tice

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1. practicenoun

   A customary action, habit, or behavior; a manner or routine.

   Synonyms:
   wone, habit, wont, routine, custom

2. practicenoun

   Synonyms:
   workout, rehearsal, drill, exercise, training

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. practicenoun

   Synonyms:
   usage, habit, exercise, experience, exercitation, action, custom, manner, performance

   Antonyms:
   disuse, dishabituation, inexperience, theory, speculation, nonperformance

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1. practice, patternnoun

   a customary way of operation or behavior

   "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"

   Synonyms:
   radiation diagram, form, approach pattern, formula, praxis, rule, figure, drill, practice session, shape, radiation pattern, blueprint, traffic pattern, pattern, convention, design, recitation, normal, exercise

2. exercise, practice, drill, practice session, recitationnoun

   systematic training by multiple repetitions

   "practice makes perfect"

   Synonyms:
   physical exercise, usage, use, praxis, recital, drill, practice session, utilisation, example, utilization, class period, employment, exercising, pattern, course session, reading, recitation, workout, physical exertion, exercise

3. practice, praxisnoun

   translating an idea into action

   "a hard theory to put into practice"; "differences between theory and praxis of communism"

   Synonyms:
   drill, exercise, pattern, practice session, recitation, praxis

4. practicenoun

   the exercise of a profession

   "the practice of the law"; "I took over his practice when he retired"

   Synonyms:
   drill, exercise, pattern, practice session, recitation, praxis

5. practiceverb

   knowledge of how something is usually done

   "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner"

   Synonyms:
   drill, exercise, pattern, practice session, recitation, praxis

6. practice, practise, exercise, doverb

   carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions

   "practice law"

   Synonyms:
   work out, fare, make out, use, coiffe, manage, execute, perform, arrange, answer, drill, serve, work, coif, get along, suffice, make, set, behave, dress, come, act, cause, commit, exert, practise, coiffure, apply, rehearse, do, exercise

7. drill, exercise, practice, practiseverb

   learn by repetition

   "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"

   Synonyms:
   rehearse, practise, exercise, commit, drill, use, bore, do, work, work out, apply, exert

8. rehearse, practise, practiceverb

   engage in a rehearsal (of)

   Synonyms:
   practise, commit, drill, use, do, exercise, rehearse, apply

9. practice, apply, useverb

   avail oneself to

   "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance"

   Synonyms:
   use, rehearse, practise, enforce, give, drill, hold, utilise, put on, employ, lend oneself, commit, implement, expend, utilize, go for, apply, habituate, do, exercise

10. commit, practiceverb

    engage in or perform

    "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"

    Synonyms:
    institutionalize, put, charge, dedicate, institutionalise, trust, devote, drill, invest, confide, pull, use, consecrate, give, intrust, entrust, perpetrate, rehearse, practise, commit, apply, place, do, send, exercise

Matched Categories

1. • Activity
   • Engage
   • Implementation
   • Use

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1. homework

   "we were given many homework assignments"

   Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. practicenoun

   Synonyms:
   custom, habit, wont, frequent repetition

2. practicenoun

   Synonyms:
   use, usage

3. practicenoun

   Synonyms:
   action, actual performance

4. practicenoun

   Synonyms:
   exercise (as of a profession), application

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. practicenoun

   Synonyms:
   custom, usage, habit, exercise, application, drill, rehearsal

2. practiceverb

   Synonyms:
   exercise, apply, do, train, drill, rehearse

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1. List of paraphrases for "practice":

   practices, practical, hands-on, practise, pratique, practising, praxis, exercise, convenient, practicing, circulation, reality, praktika, approach, handy, practised, implement, effect, habit, fact

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1. Joe Biden:

   Nobody is more committed to equal educational opportunity than I, but busing is not the way. It was a bad idea in theory, and it has turned out to be even worse in practice.

2. Feng Wei:

   Politics is the process of putting theories into practice. Young people participating in politics, including radicals, will gradually mature.

3. Jeff Coyne:

   You know, someone poking themselves with [ a needle ], or someone reusing them, it sort of encourages the safe practice of disposing of them.

4. Finance Minister Michael Noonan:

   It's common practice seemingly, particularly in the city of London, that finance houses like Goldman Sachs feel that their reputation is enhanced for other work if they're the advisers to sovereign governments for key pieces of work, an IPO for AIB, if we're selling 25 percent of it, would be one of the biggest IPOs ever in the London stock market. So obviously there'd be great attention paid to who the advisers are. There's no commitment at the point of sale that Goldman Sachs would get any additional work.

5. Francis Bacon:

   Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.