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Adjective
/prəˈfeSHənl/,
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Of, relating to, or connected with a profession,
  1. Of, relating to, or connected with a profession
    • - young professional people
    • - the professional schools of Yale and Harvard
  2. (of a person) Engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime
    • - a professional boxer
  3. Having or showing the skill appropriate to a professional person; competent or skillful
    • - their music is both memorable and professional
  4. Worthy of or appropriate to a professional person
    • - his professional expertise
  5. Denoting a person who persistently makes a feature of a particular activity or attribute
    • - a professional naysayer
Noun
  1. A person engaged or qualified in a profession
    • - professionals such as lawyers and surveyors
  2. A person engaged in a specified activity, esp. a sport or branch of the performing arts, as a main paid occupation rather than as a pastime

  3. A person competent or skilled in a particular activity
    • - she was a real professional on stage

  1. engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood; "the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications"; "began her professional career after the Olympics"; "professional theater"; "professional football"; "a professional cook"; "professional actors ...
  2. a person engaged in one of the learned professions
  3. an athlete who plays for pay
  4. master: an authority qualified to teach apprentices
  5. (profession) the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"; "they formed a community of scientists"
  6. (profession) an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
  7. A professional is a member of a vocation founded upon specialised educational training.
  8. Stephen Goldsboro (born December 7, 1988), better known by his stage name Young Steff, is an American R&B, Hip Hop, and Pop singer-songwriter currently signed to Richcraft/Atlantic Records and managed by Larock Artists. Steff was born in Vineland, New Jersey. ...
  9. Professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, are sports in which athletes receive payment for their performance. Professional athleticism has come to the fore through a combination of developments. ...
  10. The Professional is DJ Clue?'s debut studio album. It features appearances from the likes of DMX, M.O.P, Jay Z and more. It is also the first time Cam'ron appears in a major label release.
  11. The Professional (Serbian: Професионалац) is a 2003 comedy/drama, based on 1990 drama of the same name, written and directed by famous Serbian play-writer Dusan Kovacevic. ...
  12. Léon (also known as The Professional and Léon: The Professional) is a French English-language 1994 action film written and directed by French director Luc Besson. ...
  13. A person who belongs to a profession; A person who earns his living from a specified activity; An expert; Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession; That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood; Expert
  14. (profession) A promise or vow made on entering a religious order; A declaration of belief, faith or of one's opinion; An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training; The ...
  15. (Professionals) Assignments require management of the institution, or a customarily recognized department or subdivision, primary assignments include directing the work of others using discretion and independent judgment to guide and direct policy and business of the institution. ...
  16. (Professionals) Employees must have specialized and theoretical knowledge usually acquired through college training, job experience, or other comparative training;
  17. (Professionals) People who take part in sport for payment.
  18. (Professionals) We have the best web designers and programmers to participate in the development and design of your services.
  19. (Professionals) examples are Social workers, care managers, probation officers etc.
  20. Highly qualified professionals (or: professionals seeking employment), business men and women, used here as a collective term for the XING network’s target group.
  21. Professionals may use it for traditional help with writing or for creativity and brainstorming.
  22. The public profession of the vows* - poverty,* chastity,* and obedience* - as an act of consecration* to God through a religious community. Profession can be simple (temporary) or solemn (permanent or perpetual). ...
  23. (Profession) an occupation that requires special skills and advanced training.
  24. (PROFESSION) The sociology of work sees a number of occupations evolving over time and becoming professions. All professions are thus occupations but not all occupations are professions. A profession is an occupational group that is largely self-regulating. ...
  25. (PROFESSION(Generic)) An organization for producing uniquely expert work, not routine or repetitive work. Medicine, theology, law, and the military have traditionally been organized in western societies as social trustee forms of profession. ...