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.

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Doctors and nurses at nonprofit hospitals benefit but not those in private practice. Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025 What To Know Judge McFadden previously worked at the Department of Justice and in private practice in Washington, D.C. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025 Goldstein has done it 44 times, more than all but three lawyers in private practice in the Court’s modern history. George Pendle, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025 One analysis from the AMA found that the number of physicians working in private practice dropped by 13 percentage points — from 60 percent to 46.7 percent — between 2012 and 2022. Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for private practice

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“Private practice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20practice. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.

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
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