professional
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English professhennalle, professhynalle; equivalent to profession + -al.
Base: profession
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: professionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more professional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most professional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who belongs to a profession.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
pos: noun
examples: My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.
gloss: A reputation known by name.
pos: noun
gloss: An expert.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
pos: adj
examples: 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;[…].
The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
gloss: That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
pos: adj
gloss: Expert.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Derived words: antiprofessional
biprofessional
certified safety professional
extraprofessional
interprofessional
intraprofessional
legal professional privilege
monoprofessional
multiprofessional
non-professional
nonprofessional
paraprofessional
preprofessional
profersonal
professional class
professional deformation
professional engineer
professionalese
professional foul
professionalisation
professionalish
professionalism
professionalist
professionality
professionalize
professionally
professionalness
professional politician
professional rescuers doctrine
professional secrecy
professional service
professionalship
professional sport
professional student
professional suicide
professional support lawyer
professional university
professional victim
professional wrestler
professional wrestling
promag
promateur
prosumer
pseudo-professional
pseudoprofessional
semi-professional
semiprofessional
socioprofessional
subprofessional
super professional
super-professional
superprofessional
transprofessional
ultraprofessional
uniprofessional
unprofessional
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