Term: professionalization: the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
Candidate hypernym: social process: a process involved in the formation of groups of persons → 1
Candidate hypernym: single-leaf: pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stems; important as a nut pine → 0
Candidate hypernym: silversides: small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: groin: the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals → 0
Candidate hypernym: garage sale: an outdoor sale of used personal or household items held on the seller's premises → 0
Candidate hypernym: school: the process of being formally educated at a school → 0
Candidate hypernym: insulator: a material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity → 0
Candidate hypernym: amazon: (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively) → 0
Candidate hypernym: metastability: the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydraulic pump: a water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level → 0
Candidate hypernym: gabardine: a firm durable fabric with a twill weave → 0