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Webster 1913 Edition


Professional

Pro-fes′sion-al

,
Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession;
as,
professional
knowledge;
professional
conduct.
“Pride, not personal, but professional.”
Macaulay.
“A professional sneerer.”
De Quincey.
2.
Engaged in by professionals;
as, a
professional
race
; – opposed to
amateur
.

Pro-fes′sion-al

,
Noun.
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

Webster 1828 Edition


Professional

PROFES'SIONAL

,
Adj.
Pertaining to a profession or to a calling; as professional studies, pursuits, duties,engagements; professional character or skill.

Definition 2024


professional

professional

English

Noun

professional (plural professionals)

  1. A person who belongs to a profession
  2. A person who earns his living from a specified activity
  3. An expert.
    • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
      I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; [] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening.

Translations

Adjective

professional (comparative more professional, superlative most professional)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter II”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional menphysicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; [].
  2. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
  3. (by extension) Expert.

Derived terms

Translations


Catalan

Etymology

professió + -al

Adjective

professional m, f (masculine and feminine plural professionals)

  1. professional

Derived terms

Noun

professional m, f (plural professionals)

  1. professional

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From English professional.

Noun

professional m (plural professionals)

  1. a professional practicioner of a trade, métier...
  2. an expert in a (professional) field

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