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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"
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"
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.
3.
An authority qualified to teach apprentices.  Synonym: master.



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"Professional" Quotes from Famous Books



... dressing room which Anne occupied. As is the case in most of the recently built theatres, the star's dressing room had been comfortably furnished and was in direct comparison to the cheerless, barn-like rooms that make life on the road a terror to professional people. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower
... tell Dinah about the ice-cream cow," said Flossie. "Perhaps she can make them." But when appealed to, the cook said they were beyond her, and must be purchased from the professional ice-cream maker, who had the ...
— The Bobbsey Twins - Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out • Laura Lee Hope
... get down to it, I guess it doesn't mean so much! No man's got much more guts than any other man, if you ask me. All you need to be a good fighter is pride, that's all. I'm not a professional soldier even though I'm dressed like hell, but let me tell you. I'm not forced to do this kind of bloody job, ...
— The Underdogs • Mariano Azuela
... himself, soon thoroughly understood their management, and could have commanded them as well as any of the officers. He also studied navigation under his father in the cabin, and could take an observation and work a day's work with perfect accuracy. He advanced thus rapidly in his professional knowledge, not because he possessed any wonderful talent except the very important one of being able to give his mind to the subject, and in being diligent in all he undertook. He was happy and contented, because he really felt that ...
— The South Sea Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... Service, and given proof that they have received the benefits of a liberal education, and acquired that general information in classics, history, and mathematics, which is provided at our public schools, and forms no doubt the best and surest foundation for all more special and professional studies in later life, they suddenly find themselves torn away from their old studies and their old friends, and compelled to take up new subjects which to many of them seem strange, outlandish, if not repulsive. Strange alphabets, strange languages, strange names, strange literatures and ...
— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller


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