noun
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A person who belongs to a profession
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A person who earns their living from a specified activity
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A reputation known by name
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An expert.
adjective
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Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
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That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
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(by extension) Expert.
Examples of professional in a Sentence
He slipped into that professional persona.
The messy studio from last week had been transformed into a professional art gallery.
After watching the professional baseball game, Johnny aspired to become a famous athlete one day.
No one but Clarissa could be so cool and professional at the same time.
Just like that, she was cool and professional again.
Petitions continued to flow in to the emperor's cabinet, praying for a national representation, from the zemstvos, from the nobles and from the professional classes, and their moral was enforced by general agitation, by partial strikes, and by outrages which culminated at Moscow in the murder of the Grand-duke Sergius (February 4th, 1 9 05).
A state board of education, consisting of the state superintendent and five other persons appointed by him, constitutes a state board of examiners (for special primary, high school and professional certificates) and prescribes the course of study.
The subject matter of the jurisdiction of Hellenic courts Christian seems to be confined to strictly spiritual discipline, mainly in regard to the professional misconduct of the clergy.
In 1852 Professor Stowe accepted a professorship in the Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts, and the family made its home there till 1863, when he retired wholly from professional life and removed to Hartford.
Fred made a professional recovery with the help of a gulp of lemonade as Dean continued to address Mrs. Byrne.
The professional soldiers of the Continent could rarely be brought to force a decision; but the English, contending for a cause, were imbued with the spirit of the modern "nation in arms"; and having taken up arms wished to decide the quarrel by arms. This feeling was not less conspicuous in the far-ranging rides, or raids, of the Cromwellian cavalry.
For higher and professional education there are two national universities at Buenos Aires and Cordoba, and three provincial universities, at La Plata, Santa Fe and Parana, which comprise faculties of law, medicine and engineering, in addition to the usual courses in arts and science.
She spoke quickly, hoping that desire could be covered up by a professional front.
In regard to " clerks," there was (1) all the criminal jurisdiction which existed over laymen, and (2) criminal jurisdiction in regard to professional misconduct.
There have been several professional photographers (all detected in fraud sooner or later) who made it their business to take photo complaints, to certain epidemics of the middles ages,' and to phenomena that have occurred at some religious revivals.
Cynthia finished her wedding pronouncement by tossing out a comment about her foolish son considering delaying the final year of his education to play professional baseball, a decision against which she and Rose Calvia planned to exert a full court press.
Another suggestion, which rests, however, merely on its own internal probability, is that Squarcione had at the outset used his pupil Andrea as the unavowed executant of certain commissions, but that after a while Andrea began painting on his own account, thus injuring the professional interests of his chief.
Alex had his professional expression on, but Dulce was pouting.
So you hired a housekeeper with a professional attitude.
He summoned experienced teachers, Protestant as well as Catholic, from Germany, established middle and higher schools in all parts of the empire, superseded the antiquated textbooks and methods of instruction, and encouraged the formation of learned societies and the growth of a professional spirit and independence among the teachers.
His professional success was not great; his manner was violent, his appearance unattractive, and his speech impaired by a painful stammer.
It was named in honour of President Monroe and was first regularly garrisoned in 1823; in 1824 the Artillery School of Practice (now called the United States Coast Artillery School) was established to provide commissioned officers of the Coast Artillery with instruction in professional work and to give technical instruction to the non-commissioned staff.
There are so few representations of armed men that it seems doubtful if there can have been any professional military class.
You don't have to find a great cause or become a professional do-gooder.
It was publicly sealed and witnessed by professional witnesses, as well as by collaterally interested parties.
It is proportional, and is collected by deduction from salaries and pensions paid to servants of the state, where it is assessed on three-eighths of the income, and from interest on consolidated stock, where it is assessed on the whole amount; and by register in the cases of private individuals, who pay on three-fourths of their income, professional men, capitalists or manufacturers, who pay on one-half or nine-twentieths of their income.
For three hours the professional regiments of all sorts in the French lines rivalled one another in enduring the fire unmoved, the forerunners of the military systems of to-day, landsknechts, Picardie and Piedmont, showing the feudal gendarmerie that they too were men of honour.
At once she became a valuable co-operator with him both in his professional duties and in the astronomical researches to which he had already begun to devote all his spare time.
Accounts of his professional services are in Charnock's Biographia Navalis, v.
This task Bentham undertook, and he brought to it a mind absolutely free from professional or class feeling, or any other species of prejudice.
His hopes of professional success were now scattered, and he was living in Paris in extreme poverty.
At the same time a class of men arose interested in these forms for their own sake, professional lawyers Bence, but also "poisons, nay destroys, the divinest feeling in man, the sense of truth," and the belief in sacraments such as the Lord's Supper, a piece of religious materialism of which "the necessary consequences are superstition and immorality."
The present library (antedated by several circulating, social and professional collections) may justly be said to have had its origin in the efforts of the Parisian, Alexandre Vattemare (1796-1864), from 1830 on, to foster international exchanges.
The freshness, the air of leisure, the enthusiasm of discovery that mark the work of these old writers have lessons for the modern professional zoologist, who at times feels burdened with the accumulated knowledge of a century and a half.
Few branches of zoology have been more valuable as a meetingground for professional and amateur naturalists than entomology, and not seldom has the amateur - as in the case of Westwood - developed into a professor.
In fact, most of them became professional courtiers, and lived habitually at Vienna.
His professional practice now largely increased.
The embarrassing thing is my mom was a professional dressmaker before she retired and still makes rag dolls and the like as a hobby.
The duplication equipment is made up exclusively of Trace ST professional duplicators.
There was a bit of good-natured punter participation and he handled it all with the consummate ease of the experienced professional that he is.
Strengthen continuing education and professional development and promote a culture in which staff feel valued and able to reach their full potential.
To prepare a graduate geologist and, or, engineer for professional practice in engineering geology and, or, geotechnical engineering.
The Xanadu Entertainment Agency always likes to hear from clients that have booked any of our represented professional entertainers or entertainment services.
Indeed many professional users will only entrust their valuable recordings to HHB media.
It was hard to tell if the visitor was unwelcome, as he always maintained a professional tone when talking to customers or strangers.
The details were too humiliating and this wasn't something she wanted to discuss with anyone – not even a professional.
She'd never seen men that big move so quickly, even when watching professional wrestling.
Such litigation as still continued before the spiritual forum was, however, confined (save in the case of the matrimonial questions of princes) to the professional conduct of the clergy.
He also caused new rules to be enacted by which his Jewish subjects were heavily handicapped in education and professional advancement.
Most of the birds he describes are characterized with accuracy sufficient to enable them to be identified, and his observations upon them have still some interest; but he was innocent of any methodical system, and was not exempt from most of the professional fallacies of his time.'