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Professional   /prəfˈɛʃənəl/   Listen
Professional

adjective
1.
Engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood.  "Began her professional career after the Olympics" , "Professional theater" , "Professional football" , "A professional cook" , "Professional actors and athletes"  Antonym: nonprofessional.
2.
Of or relating to or suitable as a profession.  "A professional field such as law"
3.
Characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession.  "Professional ethics" , "A thoroughly professional performance"  Antonym: unprofessional.
4.
Of or relating to a profession.  "Professional training" , "Professional equipment for his new office"
5.
Engaged in by members of a profession.
noun
1.
A person engaged in one of the learned professions.  Synonym: professional person.
2.
An athlete who plays for pay.  Synonym: pro.  Antonym: amateur.
3.
An authority qualified to teach apprentices.  Synonym: master.



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"Professional" Quotes from Famous Books



... beginning of September of last year that I received a note from Mrs. Heatherstone, of Cloomber Hall, desiring me to make a professional call upon her husband, whose health, she said, had been for some time in a very ...
— The Mystery of Cloomber • Arthur Conan Doyle
... gold chain of her watch dangled over her breast, and rings glittered on both her hands, which were partly covered with black mittens. Finally appeared the notary, with a Panama hat on his head, and an eyeglass—for the professional practitioner had not stifled in him the man of the world. The drawing-room floor was waxed so that one could not stand upright there. The eight Utrecht armchairs had their backs to the wall; a round table in the centre supported the liqueur case; ...
— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert
... To the professional mind, at least, it will follow from what we have said that the injury to mind properties or qualities inflicted by the invasion of disease may be partial, and must in every case be determined by laws or conditions governing the progress of disease, perhaps on the lines and in the directions ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various
... disappeared. He scrambled to his feet again, but those behind him stopped, bracing themselves against the stream, nearly waist-deep in rushing froth. Most of them had followed rough and dangerous occupations in the bush; but they were not professional river-Jacks trained to high proficiency in log-driving, and one of them, turning, shouted to ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... was a member of the most celebrated foreign academies, and the entomological societies of the chief capitals of Europe; but his fame had not passed the walls of these academies and the narrow boundaries of the little world of professional ...
— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros


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