Noun
1. a customary way of operation or behavior;
"it is their practice to give annual raises""they changed their dietary pattern"2. systematic training by multiple repetitions;
"practice makes perfect"3. translating an idea into action;
"a hard theory to put into practice""differences between theory and praxis of communism"4. the exercise of a profession;
"the practice of the law""I took over his practice when he retired"5. knowledge of how something is usually done;
"it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner"