The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, n. [From Practician.]
   1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any
      art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
      --Crabbe.
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   2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
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   3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift.
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   General practitioner. See under General, 2.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

practitioner
    n 1: someone who practices a learned profession [syn:
         practitioner, practician]