Definition of private practice in US English:
private practice
nounˈprīvit ˈpraktəsˈpraɪvɪt ˈpræktəs
The work of a professional practitioner such as a doctor or lawyer who is self-employed.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this process, counselors can begin to identify what they want to accomplish as a counselor and in their private practice.
- She interviewed four male and four female middle-aged lawyers who were in private practice in the Toronto area.
- Some lawyers who have left private practice point to the billable hour as a central motivation for their departure.
- In private practice, counselors become responsible for all aspects of establishing and maintaining a client base.
- Since 1970 he has been in private practice as a building surveyor.
- This new insurance system covers the on-site private practice of doctors employed in the public health service.
- Doctors willing to do private practice may be allowed to do after duty period inside the campus.
- The proposed Bill would affect particularly doctors in private practice, but also those in the public sector.
- She has a range of experience in the field, working in private practice in Scotland and in the Cayman Islands.
- For a lawyer in private practice with a family to support, that's a heavy burden.
- The Netcare hospital group said most doctors in private practice supported the protest action.
- He indicates that in a solicitor's firm in private practice the sort of ratio between salary and overall cost to a firm of a solicitor is between two and two and a half times.
- The demands of parenthood lead some practitioners to private practice based on a need to have a flexible work schedule.
- This also would cover revealing the details of treatment sufficiently to sue for fees in private practice.
- In addition, professionals in private practice often report feeling isolated from colleagues.
- Do you think it's harder for people in private practice to be involved in public service?
- I was vaguely aware of a problem with an escrow account while he was an attorney in private practice in Illinois in the early 1980's.
- Of course the choice for any lawyer isn't just a straight one between private practice and legal aid.
- One of the things that makes private practice attractive to practitioners is the opportunity to specialize.
- Her mother asked the agents to meet him at his office instead, where he was a doctor in private practice.