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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" Antonym: nonprofessional.

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" Antonym: unprofessional.

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. Antonym: amateur.

3.

An authority qualified to teach apprentices. Synonym: master.

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"Professional" Quotes from Famous Books

... position of traveling salesman attach independence, dignity, opportunity, substantial reward. Many of the tribe do not appreciate this; those do so best who in time try the "professional life." When they do they usually go back to the road happy to get there again. Yet were they permanently to adopt a profession—say the law—they would make better lawyers because they had been traveling men. Were many professional men to try the road, ...

— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson

... mentioned in the earlier pages of my narrative), my mother had another relative—a cousin named Germaine—on whose assistance she mainly relied for starting me, when the time came, in a professional career. I remember it as a family rumor, that Mr. Germaine had been an unsuccessful suitor for my mother's hand in the days when they were young people together. He was still a bachelor at the later period when his eldest brother's death without issue placed him in possession of a handsome fortune. ...

— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins

... have been out, sir," cried the doctor, entering the room, and rubbing his hands in brisk, professional manner. "My maid tells me that you have had a fall. I hope my young people have looked after you in my absence. Now, would you prefer to have a talk here, or shall I assist you into ...

— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey

... exertions to obtain the educational advantages which were not within his reach at an earlier period of life, and about his twentieth year he attended the University of Edinburgh for the study of anatomy, with a view to his professional improvement. At a subsequent period he turned his attention to the art of painting on glass, and he has long been well-known as one of the most distinguished of British artists in that department. At the period Mr Ballantine ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... were certain professional assassins known to old travellers as Amouchi or Amuco. The nearest modern equivalent to these words would seem to be the Malayalim Amar-khan, "a warrior'' (from amar, "fight''). The Malayalim term chaver ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

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