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NounEdit
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.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
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person who belongs to a profession
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person who earns his living from a specified activity
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expert
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AdjectiveEdit
professional (comparative more professional, superlative most professional)
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
- 1907, Robert W. Chambers, chapter II, The Younger Set:
- 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; […].
- 1907, Robert W. Chambers, chapter II, The Younger Set:
- That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
- (by extension) Expert.
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of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the standards of a profession
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that is carried out as a livelihood
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expert
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CatalanEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
professional m, f (masculine and feminine plural professionals)
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professional m, f (plural professionals)
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EtymologyEdit
From English professional.
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professional m (plural professionals)
- a professional practicioner of a trade, métier...
- an expert in a (professional) field