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professional

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Pronunciation:/prəˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l/

adjective

  • 1 relating to or belonging to a profession:young professional people
  • worthy of or appropriate to a professional person; competent, skilful, or assured:his professional expertise their music is both memorable and professional
  • 2 engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as an amateur:a professional boxer
  • informal , derogatory habitually making a feature of a particular activity or attribute:a professional gloom-monger

noun

  • a person engaged or qualified in a profession:professionals such as lawyers and surveyors
  • a person engaged in a specified activity, especially a sport, as a main paid occupation rather than as a pastime
  • a person competent or skilled in a particular activity:she was a real professional on stage

Derivatives

professionally

adverb

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