professional
IPA: prʌfˈɛʃʌnʌɫ
noun
- A person who belongs to a profession.
- A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
- (euphemistic) A prostitute.
- A reputation known by name.
- An expert.
- One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
- That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
- (by extension) Expert.
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Examples of "professional" in Sentences
- She was the professional dancer.
- Shania is the consummate professional.
- This is the job of the professional writer.
- But the way of the professional is disastrous.
- This class is for the layman, not the professionals.
- The artist worked professionally until the early 1980s.
- There is the struggle for professionalism in dentistry.
- Many of the students are working professionals in the Silicon Valley.
- It demarcates the career profiles and regulates the professional training.
- From the age of sixteen, Henry Singleton worked as a professional portraitist.