Usually means: Repeated actions to develop skills.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word practices:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. practices: Merriam-Webster
  2. practices: Collins English Dictionary
  3. practices: Vocabulary.com
  4. Practice's, Practices, practice's, practices: Wordnik
  5. practices: Wiktionary
  6. practices: Dictionary.com
  7. practices: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. practices: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. practices: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. practices: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. practices: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. practices: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. practices: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. practices: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. practices: Idioms

(Note: See practice as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (practice)

noun:  Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
noun:  An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
noun:  (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
noun:  (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
noun:  The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
noun:  A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
noun:  Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
noun:  (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
noun:  Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
noun:  (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
verb:  (now US) Alternative spelling of practise [(transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.]
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