Synonyms:
professional
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
professional
Meaning: of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional organizations"; "a professional field such as law"
Synonyms:
professional
Meaning: characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance"
Synonyms:
professional
Meaning: of or relating to a profession; "we need professional advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment for his new office"
Synonyms:
professional
Meaning: engaged in by members of a profession; "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
professional, professional_person
Meaning: a person engaged in one of the learned professions
Synonyms:
professional, pro
Meaning: an athlete who plays for pay
Synonyms:
master, professional
Meaning: an authority qualified to teach apprentices
Usage examples
"Ha! a professional call.
In these last the professional men were educated.
He had been the professional with the best chance.
A Compend of the General Claims Made by Professional Hypnotists.
If it were only summer, he might get taken on somewhere as a cricket professional.
There are some things too intimate for even a professional agriculturist to write of.
My professional pride was up in arms, and I couldn't bear to have a hand in a crooked deal.
"You pique my professional pride, doctor," he said in a nettled tone. "I will convince you."
To ward heelers, to the daily press, and to professional stump speakers, he gave scant comfort.
"Ah, but we do not stand for the commercial life," object the refined, scholarly, and professional men.