The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word PRACTICE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result PRACTICE
- Routine pretence in outlay
- Pair to perform at front of one church in rehearsal
- Rehearsal for short part of play, postponed?
- Something doctor has: charge to cover operation
- Moan about having time to kill in rehearsal
- Cost surrounding anything done for, eg GP’s business
- Cost to keep part of play in rehearsal
- Training to put turn in charge
- Cost includes thing done for business
- Charge to cover work exercise
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The straight part
We know that "rehearsal" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case rehearsal = practice.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PRACTICE mean?
PRACTICE noun- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
- A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- 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.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- To repeat an activity in this way.
- To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
- To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To conspire.
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- To make use of; to employ.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.