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OUT OF PRACTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does out of practice mean? 

OUT OF PRACTICE (adjective)
  The adjective OUT OF PRACTICE has 1 sense:

1. impaired in skill by neglectplay

  Familiarity information: OUT OF PRACTICE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OUT OF PRACTICE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Impaired in skill by neglect

Synonyms:

out of practice; rusty

Similar:

unskilled (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency)


 Context examples 


His muscles had remained inactive so long, and he was so out of practice in maintaining an erect position, that he could scarcely stand.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Besides, I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over, and my frankness was congealed beneath it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I'm all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn't play. I'm all out of prac—

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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