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Professional   /prəfˈɛʃənəl/   Listen
adjective
Professional  adj.  
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." "A professional sneerer."
2.
Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; opposed to amateur.


noun
Professional  n.  A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.





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"Professional" Quotes from Famous Books



... professional term for having obtained a commission, or being promoted. Also, in some points synonymous with built. ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... projected work on American society. She was trying to extort a promise that she should appear in its pages, which, as we all remember, she did. One of her attendant nymphs sat leaning her elbows on the table, "talking horse" with a gentleman who had an undoubted professional claim to a knowledge of that commodity. Another, having finished her manufactured cigarette, was making the grinning midshipman open his lips wider and wider to receive it. Mrs. Ingleside was talking in her mincing way with a Jew broker, whose English was as imperfect ...
— Malbone - An Oldport Romance • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... yet, medicine has been turned to little account in the way of directly promoting the physical and mental welfare of man. But the day is, perhaps, not far distant, when, in consequence of the improvements both in professional and general education now in progress, a degree of interest will be attached to this application of its doctrines far surpassing what those who have not reflected on the subject will be able to imagine as justly belonging to it, but ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew
... part, I have no means of checking you," said I, "but at least it is not difficult to find out a few particulars about the man's age and professional career." From my small medical shelf I took down the Medical Directory and turned up the name. There were several Mortimers, but only one who could be our visitor. I read ...
— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle
... too. The old one of his father's which he had brought to the new Residence had seemed quite inadequate when the Residence was redone. This new viewer had been designed for professional use. It was a full two feet in diameter and could fill thousands of cubic feet with ...
— The Weakling • Everett B. Cole


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