private practice

noun

: a professional business (such as that of a lawyer or doctor) that is not controlled or paid for by the government or a larger company (such as a hospital)

After years as attorney general, he returned to private practice.

Examples of private practice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Despite our diversity, each of us spent many years in private practice before the Arkansas courts before ascending to service on the state's highest court. —Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2026

Toni Pelayo spent more than 30 years working as a dental hygienist in private practice. —Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026

Both prosecutors joined the office in January 2024, after working in private practice, according to their LinkedIn pages. —Jonah Kaplan, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026

English, the first Black woman to open a private practice in the state of New York, was known as Brooklyn’s Birth Mother. —Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for private practice

• actus
• cactus
• practise
• tractus
• malpractice

Medical Definition

private practice

noun

1

: practice of a profession (as medicine) independently and not as an employee

2

: the patients depending on and using the services of a physician in private practice