Definition of In practice

1. Adverb. In practical applications. "Will this work in practice?"

Definition of In practice

1. Adverb. really, in effect. Not hypothetically. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of In Practice

in person
in person(p)
in personam
in petto
in phase
in place
in place of
in plain view
in play(p)
in point
in point of fact
in poor taste(p)
in posse
in potentia
in power
in practice (current term)
in principal
in principle
in print
in prison
in private
in process of time
in progress
in progress(p)
in proportion to
in propria persona
in public
in question
in question(p)
in rags

Literary usage of In practice

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"In speaking of the rights of the defendant he said: "The first inventor who has put the invention in practice, and he only, is entitled to a patent. ..."

2. Who's who in America by Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1901)
"24, 1889, Jennie Dey Adams, at Castleton, Vt. Engaged in practice of medicine for 22 yrs.—the past 17 in Boston; holds radical views concerning drug ..."

3. Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)
"in practice gave way to great laxity of the law and, after a short interval, to unbounded licence in practice. Let us see whether we can, by examining the ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It is his office to administer Viaticum to the bishop, and to conduct the bishop's obsequies. is to determine for each in practice those circumstances of ..."

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