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professional
English
Etymology
profession +? -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???f???n?l/
Noun
professional (plural professionals)
- A person who belongs to a profession
- A person who earns their living from a specified activity
- A reputation known by name
- An expert.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 97:
- I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; […] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 97:
Derived terms
- non-professional, nonprofessional
- pseudo-professional, pseudoprofessional
- semi-professional, semiprofessional
- super professional, super-professional, superprofessional
Translations
Adjective
professional (comparative more professional, superlative most professional)
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
- That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
- (by extension) Expert.
Derived terms
- non-professional, nonprofessional
- professionalism
- pseudo-professional, pseudoprofessional
- semi-professional, semiprofessional
- unprofessional
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
professió +? -al
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /p?o.f?.si.o?nal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /p?u.f?.si.u?nal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /p?o.fe.si.o?nal/
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
professional (masculine and feminine plural professionals)
- professional
Derived terms
- professionalisme
- professionalment
Noun
professional m or f (plural professionals)
- professional
Further reading
- “professional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “professional” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “professional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “professional” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From English professional.
Pronunciation
Noun
professional m (plural professionals)
- a professional practicioner of a trade, métier...
- an expert in a (professional) field
Related terms
- professionalism n
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nonprofessional
English
Alternative forms
- non-professional
Etymology
non- +? professional
Adjective
nonprofessional (not comparable)
- not professional; amateur
Translations
Noun
nonprofessional (plural nonprofessionals)
- One who is not a professional; an amateur.
Translations
See also
- unprofessional
nonprofessional From the web:
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- what does non professional mean
- what means nonprofessional
- what does nonprofessional
- what is a non professional called
- what is a non professional degree
- what is a non professional person called
- what is non professional driver's license
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