practice

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Same thing they want to do with the "Fairness Doctrine" .... the Orwellian name for a practice is the opposite of that.

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  1. transitive verb To do or perform habitually or customarily; make a habit of: practices courtesy in social situations.
  2. transitive verb To do or perform (something) repeatedly in order to acquire or polish a skill: practice a dance step.
  3. transitive verb To give lessons or repeated instructions to; drill: practiced the students in handwriting.
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  • However, this practice was usually a supplement to marriage, —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • If this practice is as widespread as I think it is, these lumps all over the body will probably become known as the "plague of boils" of the —  Asheville Indymedia Summaries
  • If this practice is adopted where will you get your next computer or more importantly your screen. —  News
  • That this practice is apparently countenanced by the vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza points not only to their rejection of the barest standards of human deportment but serves to indict the religion from which this all flows - Islam. —  Latest Articles
  • To many music fans, the practice was a loathsome and heavy-handed approach that only served to inspire people to resist efforts to keep them from obtaining music. —  Muti
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method ·  policy ·  activity ·  principle ·  habit ·  exercise ·  art

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  1. Middle English practisen, from Old French practiser, alteration of practiquer, from practique, practice, from Medieval Latin prāctica; see practicable.

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  1. Formerly also practise; from Middle English *practise, prattise; from practice, practise, v.; a later noun taking the place of the earlier noun practic. The spelling practice (with c instead of s) is apparently in conformity with practic, practical, etc.
 

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