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    pro·fes·sion·al
    [prəˈfeSH(ə)nəl]
    adjective
    professional (adjective)
    1. engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime:
      "a professional boxer"
      Similar:
      paid
      salaried
      full-time
      nonamateur
      Opposite:
      amateur
      • derogatory
        habitually making a feature of a particular activity or attribute:
        "a professional naysayer"
    2. worthy of or appropriate to a professional person; competent, skillful, or assured:
      "their music is both memorable and professional" · "she's a wonderful actress to work with and, of course, very professional"
    3. relating to or belonging to a profession:
      "young professional people" · "resources for professional development" · "the professional schools of Yale and Harvard"
      Opposite:
      manual
    noun
    professional (noun) · professionals (plural noun)
    1. a person engaged or qualified in a profession:
      "professionals such as lawyers and surveyors"
      Similar:
      white-collar worker
      professional worker
      office worker
    2. a person engaged in a specified activity, especially a sport or branch of the performing arts, as a main paid occupation rather than as a pastime:
      "his first season as a professional"
      Similar:
      pro
      professional player
      nonamateur
      paid player
    3. a person competent or skilled in a particular activity:
      "she was a real professional on stage"
      Opposite:
      amateur
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    Professional means relating to a person's work, especially work that requires special training. His professional career started at Liverpool University. ...a professionally-qualified architect. The opening months of 1987 were difficult, …

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    What does professional mean?
    Get a quick, free translation! PROFESSIONAL definition: 1. relating to work that needs special training or education: 2. having the qualities that you…. Learn more.

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    What is a professional person?
    professional objectivity. A lawyer is a professional person. a professional golfer. “A salesman,” he said, “is a professional optimist.” professional baseball. a professional apartment; professional equipment. professional car repairs. a person who belongs to one of the professions, especially one of the learned professions. a golf professional.

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    What does profess mean?
    pro•fes•sion•al•ly, adv. See -fess-. following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder. of, pertaining to, or connected with a profession: professional studies. appropriate to a profession: professional objectivity. engaged in one of the learned professions: A lawyer is a professional person.

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    n. 10. a member of a profession, esp. one of the learned professions. 11. a person who earns a living in a sport or other occupation frequently engaged in by amateurs. 12. a person who is expert at his or her work.

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    Where does the word professional come from?
    professional is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: profession n., ‑al suffix1.

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    Definition of professional adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary doing something as a paid job rather than as a hobby She began her professional career as a dancer 20 years ago. After he won the amateur championship he turned professional. I enjoyed boxing but I was never good enough to go professional. Want to learn more?

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    When an athlete "goes pro," she goes professional–-she is paid for her service rather than doing it on an amateur basis. Other professionals, including doctors and lawyers, are also paid for their work, which, we hope, they conduct in a …

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    A professional is a person who works in a specified activity with high standards of education, training and ethics. Learn about the origins, evolution and types of professions, as well as the differences between professionals and trades.

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    PROFESSIONAL definition in American English

    If you say something that someone does or produces is professional, you approve of it because you think that it is of a very high standard.

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