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in practice

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Really, in effect

    Really, in effect; not just hypothetically.

    • The new tax should have helped the farming community. But in practice farmers generally appear to be worse off than before.
    • The DfT has yet to announce how the regulations will work in practice.

  2. Regularly practising an activity so as to remain skilled in it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in practice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA