Professional
[prə'feʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [prə'fɛʃənl]
Definition
(noun.) a person engaged in one of the learned professions.
(noun.) an athlete who plays for pay.
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; 'professional conduct'; 'professional ethics'; 'a thoroughly professional performance' .
(adj.) engaged in by members of a profession; 'professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching' .
(adj.) of or relating to a profession; 'we need professional advice'; 'professional training'; 'professional equipment for his new office' .
(adj.) of or relating to or suitable as a profession; 'professional organizations'; 'a professional field such as law' .
Checked by Jeannette--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.
(n.) A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
Typed by Harrison
Examples
- He was modestly impressed by Mr. Kenge's professional eminence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Ah, business--business--professional duties . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- You oughter see, now, said Marks, in a glow of professional pride, how I can tone it off. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Here I felt that my professional existence depended on not holding my tongue. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Really--really--as Mr. Chillip told my mother, he was almost shocked; speaking in a professional point of view alone, he was almost shocked. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But I must not shrink from a professional duty, even if it sows dissensions in families. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- However, I began, with the assistance of the son of a professional man, who had been to Salem House--Yawler, with his nose on one side. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In that case I shall continue my professional round. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They proved to be the simplest instructions I had ever received in the whole of my professional career. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At this parental and professional joke, Mr. Weller, junior, smiled a filial smile. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This medal was founded in 1902 by the professional friends and associates of the veteran American ironmaster and metallurgical inventor, in honor of his eightieth birthday. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My second, I fear, was rather one of professional satisfaction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You might marry a professional man, or somebody of that sort, by going into the town to live and forming acquaintances there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He drew plans for machinery, he designed houses and carriages, he worked as professional painter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The five thousand professionals do not begin to represent the whole illicit traffic of a city like Chicago. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With professionals such as thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Checker: Paulette