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Practitioner vs Counterpart - What's the difference?

practitioner | counterpart |

As nouns the difference between practitioner and counterpart

is that practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine while counterpart is either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.

practitioner

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
  • One who does anything customarily or habitually.
  • (label) A sly or artful person.
  • * John Whitgift
  • the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

    Derived terms

    * general practitioner * nurse practitioner * pracademic

    References

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    counterpart

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
  • ''Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Mr. Obama never found a generational counterpart among conservatives in Congress like Paul D. Ryan or Eric Cantor; instead, there was a mutual animosity.}}
  • (legal) A duplicate of a legal document.
  • One which resembles another
  • One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.}}

    Synonyms

    * equivalent * opposite number * pendant