English
Noun
Professional (plural Professionals)
- A person who belongs to a profession
- A person who earns his living from a specified activity
- 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.
Adjective
Professional (comparative more Professional, superlative most Professional)
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
- That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood
- (by extension) Expert
Derived terms
Adverbs for Professional
strictly; scarcely; hardly; highly; expertly;
self-consciously; ridiculously; absurdly; suddenly; incredibly; pretentiously; obscurely;
insistently; consistently; supposedly; emphatically; assertively; dogmatically; formally; solemnly; conspicuously; unmistakably; prodigiously; ostentatiously.
Thesaurus
Admirable Crichton, Daedalian, able, academic, accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, artisan, artist, artiste, artistic, at concert pitch, attache, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant, businesslike, career, clean, clever, coached, competent, connaisseur, connoisseur, conscientious, consultant, conversant, coordinated, cordon bleu, crack, crack shot, crackerjack, craftsman, cross-disciplinary, cunning, cute, daedal, dead shot, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist, educated, efficient, elder statesman, excellent, experienced, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, fancy, finished, functional, gifted, good, goodish, gownsman, graceful, graduate, graduate-professional, handy, handy man, industrial, ingenious, initiate, initiated, interdisciplinary, journeyman, knowledgeable, licensed, maestro, magisterial, marksman, master, masterful, masterly, maven, neat, no mean, no slouch, official, old pro, past master, pedagogical, polished, politic, politician, postgraduate, practiced, prepared, primed, pro, professor, proficient, prompt, qualified, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, savant, scholarly, scholastic, schoolish, seasoned, seasoned professional, shark, sharp, skilled, skillful, slick, some, specialist, statesman, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, talented, technical, technical adviser, technician, the compleat, the complete, thorough, trained, veteran, virtuoso, vocational, well-done, whiz, wizard, workmanlike
Pronunciation
Translations
Noun
A person who belongs to a profession
A person who earns his living from a specified activity
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the standards of a profession
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood
Catalan
Adjective
- professional
Dutch
Noun
Professional (plural profesionals, diminutive Professionalje, diminutive plural Professionaljes)
- a professional practicioner of a trade, métier...
- an expert in a (professional) field
Etymology
From English
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