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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 men—physicians 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.

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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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