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English

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-professional.ogg


Noun

  1. A person who belongs to a profession
  2. A person who earns his living from a specified activity
  3. An expert.


Translations

  • Russian: {{t+|ru|профессионал|m|tr=prof'essionál|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|профессионал|m|tr=prof'essionál|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|proffs|n}}
  • Dutch: , {{t-|nl|expert|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Profi|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|proffs|n}}, {{t+|sv|expert|c}}

Adjective

  1. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the standards of a profession
  2. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood
  3. In the Context of expert|Expert


Derived terms


Translations

  • Czech: {{t-|cs|profesionální|m}}
  • Dutch: beroeps-, professioneel
  • German:
  • Italian:
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|профессиональный|tr=prof'essionál'nyj|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Swedish:
  • German: ,
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|профессиональный|tr=prof'essionál'nyj|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Swedish:
  • Dutch:
  • German:
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|профессиональный|tr=prof'essionál'nyj|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Swedish:

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Dutch

Etymology

English

Noun

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


Related terms


fr:professional io:professional it:professional kk:professional ku:professional hu:professional ja:professional pl:professional ru:professional simple:professional fi:professional ta:professional te:professional vi:professional tr:professional zh:professional

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Professional \Pro*fes"sion*al\, a.
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.
[1913 Webster]

2. Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; --
opposed to amateur.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Professional \Pro*fes"sion*al\, n.
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a
livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a
professional worker.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet professional
adj 1: engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or
means of livelihood; "the professional man or woman
possesses distinctive qualifications"; "began her
professional career after the Olympics"; "professional
theater"; "professional football"; "a professional
cook"; "professional actors and athletes" [ant: nonprofessional]
2: of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional
organizations"; "a professional field such as law"
3: characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged
in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional
ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance" [ant: unprofessional]
4: of or relating to a profession; "we need professional
advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment
for his new office"
5: engaged in by members of a profession; "professional
occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
n 1: a person engaged in one of the learned professions [syn: {professional
person}]
2: an athlete who plays for pay [syn: pro] [ant: amateur]
3: an authority qualified to teach apprentices [syn: master]
Moby Dictionary
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


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