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Practice, trial
Answer for the clue "Practice, trial ", 9 letters:
dummy run
Word definitions for dummy run in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ In a recent dummy run , the 4th Marine Brigade stormed a beach on Catalina Island. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Maybe everyone was out in force as a dummy run for the Countryside march on 18 March.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English)A trial or practice before the real attempt.
Usage examples of dummy run.
They put the mining robot through its paces on a dummy run, checking that each movement corresponded exactly to that pictured.
The negs had been the middle ten in a roll of thirty-six and the rest were blank: automatic exposure with a dummy run and timed cut-off, the prints tallying.