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

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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