Professional

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.
  • adj. Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional behavior.
  • adj. Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career: a professional writer.
  • adj. Performed by persons receiving pay: professional football.
  • adj. Having or showing great skill; expert: a professional repair job.
  • n. A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.
  • n. One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house.
  • n. A skilled practitioner; an expert.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who belongs to a profession
  • n. A person who earns his living from a specified activity
  • n. An expert.
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
  • adj. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
  • adj. Expert.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession
  • adj. Engaged in by professionals; ; -- opposed to amateur.
  • n. A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining or appropriate to a profession or calling: as, professional studies; professional skill.
  • Engaged in a profession; being such by profession.
  • Undertaken or engaged in for money or as a means of subsistence: opposed to amateur: said of sports and amusements: as, a professional base-ball match; a professional performance of a play.
  • n. One who regularly pursues any profession or art.
  • n. Specifically, a person who makes his living by an art, game, or sport in which amateurs are accustomed to engage for amusement or recreation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an authority qualified to teach apprentices
  • adj. of or relating to or suitable as a profession
  • n. an athlete who plays for pay
  • adj. of or relating to a profession
  • adj. engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
  • adj. characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
  • adj. engaged in by members of a profession
  • n. a person engaged in one of the learned professions
    • Equivalent
    paid    professed    nonrecreational    white-collar   
    Antonym
    amateur    amateurish    lay   
    Cross Reference
    professional education   
    Form
    professionalism   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trade    business   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    concessional    confessional    congressional    nonprofessional    obsessional    processional    unprofessional   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    political    scientific    academic    friendly   
     
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