{
    "term": "practice",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "doing an activity or training regularly so that you can improve your skill; the time you spend doing this",
            "sensetop": "with practicepractice in doing something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "conversation practice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It takes a lot of practice to play the violin well."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a basketball practice every Friday evening."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She does an hour's piano practice every day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "With practice you will become more skilled.",
                    "contextForm": "with practice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've had a lot of practice in saying ‘no’ recently!",
                    "contextForm": "practice in doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It takes **years of practice** to get it right."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had an extra **practice session** on Friday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't worry if you can't do it at first—it takes practice!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His accent should improve with practice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll be able to get in a bit of practice this weekend."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It will be good practice for later, when you have to make speeches in public."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children need more practice in tying their shoelaces."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This chapter gives students practice in using adjectives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We watched the swimmers go through their practice drills."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The trainees need more practice in using the compass."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Music"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["basketball", "batting", "football"],
                "verb + practice": ["do", "get", "get in"],
                "practice + noun": ["facilities", "field", "ground"],
                "preposition": ["out of practice", "with practice", "practice at"],
                "phrases": ["be good practice for something", "practice makes perfect"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "action rather than ideas",
            "sensetop": "in practice",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **theory and practice** of teaching"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's determined to **put** her new ideas **into practice**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the complications that arise in actual practice",
                    "contextForm": "in practice"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + practice": ["put something into"],
                "preposition": ["in practice"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a way of doing something that is the usual or expected way in a particular organization or situation",
            "sensetop": "practice of doing something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Wearing gloves should be **standard practice** when handling pesticides."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These methods remain **current practice**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is a **common practice** to include recommendations for further action in such reports."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Everyone knows it is **good business practice** to listen to your customers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "childcare policy and practice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a review of pay and working practices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Religious practices** differ from group to group."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am constantly **adopting** new **practices** on my farm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has **changed its** accounting **practices**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We will **follow the practice** of going in alphabetical order.",
                    "contextForm": "practice of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has ended its practice of pumping raw sewage out to sea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "American social practices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Certain practices exist in both public and private schools."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Established practices are difficult to modify."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is standard practice not to pay bills until the end of the month."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bank has continued its practice of charging late fees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is now common practice among ethnographers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "changes in employment practices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "environmentally sound practices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the company's practice of selling through agents"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the decisions that govern our practice and our conduct"
                },
                {
                    "text": "questionable accounting practices regarding the sale of hardware"
                },
                {
                    "text": "shady business practices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rumours of sharp practice or dishonest dealing will ruin his career."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We use this information to inform clinical practice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "safe medical practices for children"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["good", "recommended", "sound"],
                "verb + practice": ["introduce", "adopt", "employ"],
                "practice + verb": ["exist", "begin", "continue"],
                "preposition": ["practice among", "practice for", "practice in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a change in practice",
                    "a code of practice",
                    "make a practice of something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a thing that is done regularly; a habit or a custom",
            "sensetop": "practice of doing somethingit is somebody's practice to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the German practice of giving workers a say in how their company is run",
                    "contextForm": "practice of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is his practice to read several books a week.",
                    "contextForm": "it is somebody's practice to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't make a practice of forgetting to pay my bills, I assure you!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the ancient custom of log rolling, a practice that continues to this day"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was my practice never to make a written record of the conversations."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the work or the business of some professional people such as doctors, dentists and lawyers; the place where they work",
            "sensetop": "in practice",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the practice of medicine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**clinical/medical practice**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Students should have prior experience of veterinary practice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My solicitor is no longer in practice.",
                    "contextForm": "in practice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a successful medical/dental/law practice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has been suspended from practice, pending legal investigations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She runs a successful legal practice in Ohio."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Martin began his own practice in 1993."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has opened a new practice in the town."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare", "Jobs"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["successful", "clinical", "legal"],
                "verb + practice": ["be in", "go into", "set up in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be/become less good at doing something than you were because you have not spent time doing it recently",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't ask me to speak French! I'm out of practice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you don't play regularly you soon get out of practice."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in reality",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Prisoners have legal rights, but in practice these rights are not always respected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The idea sounds fine in theory, but would it work in practice?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a way of encouraging people by telling them that if you do an activity regularly and try to improve your skill, you will become very good at it",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpræktɪs/",
                "audio": "pr/practice/practice__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpræktɪs/",
                "audio": "pr/practice/practice__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from practise, on the pattern of pairs such as advise, advice."
}