Definitions for professional

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professional pro·fes·sion·al

Spelling: [pruh-fesh-uh-nl]

IPA: /prəˈfɛʃ ə nl/

Professional is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1711 anagrams from letters in professional (aefilnooprss).

Definitions for professional

noun

1. a person who belongs to one of the professions, especially one of the learned professions.
2. a person who earns a living in a sport or other occupation frequently engaged in by amateurs:
3. an expert player, as of golf or tennis, serving as a teacher, consultant, performer, or contestant; pro.
4. a person who is expert at his or her work:

adjective

1. following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain:
2. of, relating to, or connected with a profession:
3. appropriate to a profession:
4. engaged in one of the learned professions:
5. following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime:
6. making a business or constant practice of something not properly to be regarded as a business: .
7. undertaken or engaged in as a means of livelihood or for gain:
8. of or for a professional person or his or her place of business or work:
9. done by a professional; expert:

Origin of professional

First recorded in 1740-50; profession + -al¹

Examples for professional

Soon thereafter, Bentivolio was asked to play Santa in downtown Milford and became a professional.

The professional slave-hunters, with their blood-hounds, were soon on the track.

Excuse me, Mr. Vavasor, but how do you know I am not a professional singer?

A professional ballroom dancer and instructor, her name reflects a parallel that runs in both BDSM and dance: symbiosis.

Robert, though not a professional fisherman, was not wholly inexperienced.

In fact, I publicly vowed to abstain from The Ball in 2012, but professional responsibilities and curiosity got the better of me.

“By no means are we Grade A professional consultants,” Goff said.

A professional would have been shocked by some of its appointments.

Texas offers not just place to its actual or potential new residents, but professional possibilities.

I mean, how then do you know I am not a professional singer?