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

In January 2020, See opened a private practice and began contract work with Davidson’s athletic department. —Colin Cerniglia, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2025

Prior to her time at FilmNation, Cohen spent 13 years in private practice at entertainment law firms including Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C. and Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP. —Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 13 May 2025

Read more: Prevention & Treatment Supplements Dietary Supplements 21 Sources Amy Brownstein, MS, RDN, is a private practice dietitian and nutrition consultant based on the West Coast. —Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 6 May 2025

All of them have friends and law school classmates in private practice. —Ian Millhiser, Vox, 29 Mar. 2025

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