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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Looming cuts to the VA may cause an irreversible blow if the VA stops providing comprehensive care to veterans and, instead, pushes veterans into seeing doctors in private practice.
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Jamie Rowen, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
Gorsuch, as a lawyer in private practice, previously represented Anschutz.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
America’s Top 250 Lawyers is open to attorneys in private practice with impressive track records, who are lauded in the legal marketplace, and who have demonstrated outsize influence in their specialties.
—Liane Jackson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
That’s how Kate Walsh’s fabulous neonatal surgeon Dr. Addison Montgomery winds up making the move from Seattle to the Oceanside Wellness Group, a co-op private practice in Los Angeles.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
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Jamie Rowen, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
Gorsuch, as a lawyer in private practice, previously represented Anschutz.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
America’s Top 250 Lawyers is open to attorneys in private practice with impressive track records, who are lauded in the legal marketplace, and who have demonstrated outsize influence in their specialties.
—Liane Jackson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
That’s how Kate Walsh’s fabulous neonatal surgeon Dr. Addison Montgomery winds up making the move from Seattle to the Oceanside Wellness Group, a co-op private practice in Los Angeles.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Private practice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20practice. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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