Professionally
[prə'fɛʃənəli]
Definition
(adv.) in a professional manner; 'professionally trained staff'.
Checker: Patty--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.
Checker: Marge
Examples
- I won't know your story professionally, for nothing, old lady! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Professionally he declines and he falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Where any interests of hers are concerned, I represent my partner personally, as well as professionally. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I live professionally in an atmosphere of disputation, Mr. Hartright, and I am only too glad to escape from it, as I am escaping here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I don't wish it professionally spoken about. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Bragg was a remarkably intelligent and well-informed man, professionally and otherwise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Godfrey, for instance--though professionally a sort of consoler-general--seemed to be at a loss where to look for his own resources. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But let them all be represented in one room by men who are professionally interested in their constituency's prejudices and what would you accomplish but a deepening of the cleavages? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I see that you are professionally rather busy just now, said he, glancing very keenly across at me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was myself professionally detained, that night, by a case at some distance from Frizinghall. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We had the doctor in the house professionally. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I understand you to be now consulting me professionally as to your interests? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I happen to know Lady Sara by sight; her noble mother has called me in professionally. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He never converses when not professionally consulted. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You know it is professionally arranged beforehand in all cases that are tried what facts the witnesses are to prove. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Checker: Marge