in practice
adjective
Roget 698:
skillful,
dexterous,
adroit,
expert,
apt,
handy,
quick,
deft,
ready,
gain;
slick,
smart
etc.
(active)
682;
proficient,
good at,
up to,
at home in,
master of,
a good hand at,
au fait,
thoroughbred,
masterly,
crack,
accomplished;
conversant
etc.
(knowing)
490.
experienced,
practiced,
skilled,
hackneyed;
up in,
well up in;
in practice,
in proper cue;
competent,
efficient,
qualified,
capable,
fitted,
fit for,
up to the mark,
trained,
initiated,
prepared,
primed,
finished.
clever,
cute,
able,
ingenious,
felicitous,
gifted,
talented,
endowed;
inventive
etc.
515;
shrewd,
sharp,
on the ball
etc.
(intelligent)
498;
cunning
etc.
702;
alive to,
up to snuff,
not to be caught with chaff;
discreet.
neat-handed,
fine-fingered,
nimble-fingered,
ambidextrous,
sure-footed;
cut out for,
fitted for.
technical,
artistic,
scientific,
daedalian†,
shipshape;
workman-like,
business-like,
statesman-like.
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Roget 673:
preparing
etc.
v.;
in preparation,
in course of preparation,
in agitation,
in embryo,
in hand,
in train;
afoot,
afloat;
on foot,
on the stocks,
on the anvil;
under consideration
etc.
(plan)
626;
brewing,
batching,
forthcoming,
brooding;
in store for,
in reserve.
precautionary,
provident;
preparative,
preparatory;
provisional,
inchoate,
under revision;
preliminary
etc.
(precedent)
62.
prepared
etc.
v.;
in readiness;
ready,
ready to one's band,
ready made,
ready cut and dried: made to one's hand,
handy,
on the table;
in gear;
in working order,
in working gear;
snug;
in practice.
ripe,
mature,
mellow;
pukka†;
practiced
etc.
(skilled)
698;
labored,
elaborate,
highly-wrought,
smelling of the lamp,
worked up.
in full feather,
in best bib and tucker;
in harness,
at harness;
in the saddle,
in arms,
in battle array,
in war paint;
up in arms;
armed at all points,
armed to the teeth,
armed cap a pie;
sword in hand;
booted and spurred.
in utrumque paratus [Lat.],
semper paratus [Lat.];
on the alert
etc.
(vigilant)
459;
at one's post.
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Moby thesaurus: acting, active, at work, functional, functioning, going, going on, in commission, in effect, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play, in process, in service, in the works, in use, inaction, on foot, on the fire, ongoing, operating, operational, running, working ... show more.
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