professional
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
professional/prəˈfeʃənl/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to or belonging to a profession.
■ worthy of a professional person; skilful or competent.
- 2 engaged in an activity as a paid occupation rather than as an amateur.
- 3 informal, derogatory habitually engaged in a particular activity: a professional time-waster.
■ a person having impressive competence in a particular activity.
– derivatives
professionalization (or professionalisation) noun,
professionalize (or professionalise) verb,
professionally adverb.
professionalization (or professionalisation) noun,
professionalize (or professionalise) verb,
professionally adverb.
'professional' also found in these Oxford entries:
amateur
- artiste
- big league
- book hand
- call
- carrier
- chartered
- chef
- civil service
- client
- college
- consult
- consultancy
- consultation
- cosmetology
- counsel
- dancing girl
- devil
- digerati
- DIY
- equity
- execution
- fee
- franchise
- funny man
- gleeman
- guide
- guinea
- home
- home movie
- honorarium
- hoofer
- itinerate
- jester
- jockey
- Kathak
- Kiwanis Club
- lay
- layman
- lensman
- Lonsdale belt
- major league
- malpractice
- manager
- managerialism
- mercenary
- middle class
- minor league
- mise en place
- Mr
