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.

Examples of private practice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Goldstein, who has argued before the Supreme Court more than nearly any other attorney in private practice in modern times, is accused of willfully failing to pay more than $5.3 million in taxes. —Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2025

Meanwhile, Linda is working full time as a therapist in private practice, while also shuttling her daughter to the hospital for examinations and treatments and laboriously preparing the special diet that she is fed through her tube. —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025

Murphy worked from 1971-1978 in the Cook County public defender’s office, then in private practice until she was elected judge of the circuit court in 1989. —Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025

Kwak started a private practice and is a part-time professor at USC. —Alexis Timko, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 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