practising

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prac·tis·ing British EnglishBrE, practicing American English /ˈpræktəsɪŋ/ adjectiveadj

1. a practising Catholic/Muslim/Jew etc RRRELIGIONsomeone who follows the rules and customs of a particular religion 虔诚的天主教徒/穆斯林/犹太教徒等 OPP lapsed

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a practising Catholic/Muslim/Jew etc• At that time he had been a practising Catholic for two or three months.

2 a practising doctor/lawyer/teacher etc WORK/DO WORKsomeone who is working as a doctor, lawyer etc 执业医生/执业律师/从业教师等

Few practicing teachers have time for such research.

从事教学工作的老师很少有时间做这样的研究。

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a practising doctor/lawyer/teacher etc• Morwenna Wood a practising doctor is being treated in Oxford's JOhn radcliffe hospital.

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practising• Changes in rights of audience may well result in a slimming down of the practising Bar.• Applicants for both posts should be practising Christians in agreement with the Trust's aims and purposes.• Over 500 of the prisoners are practising Christians.• Working alongside the students will be practising musicians, architects, painters and dancers.• Harri was the only practising Muslim in the class.• For trainers or practising professionals needing a refresher course.• Such was my sole experience in dabbling with the occult, when I met Beth and Ida Perry - practising spiritualists.• The perspective on pedagogy that informs this book, then, makes considerable demands on the practising teacher.

From Longman Business Dictionary

practisingprac·tis·ing /ˈpræktəsɪŋ/ British EnglishBrE, practicing American EnglishAmE adjectiveadj

a practising lawyer, doctor etc is working as a lawyer, doctor etc

Judges have invariably spent most of their working lives as practising barristers.

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