professional

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=fes=sion=al
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

professional, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.  [1913 Webster]
•  Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.  [1913 Webster]

professional, n. 

 A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

professional, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or belonging to or connected with a profession.
2 a having or showing the skill of a professional, competent. b worthy of a professional (professional conduct).
3 engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation (cf. AMATEUR) (a professional boxer).
4 derog. engaged in a specified activity regarded with disfavour (a professional agitator).
--n. a professional person.

Idiom

professional foul a deliberate foul in football etc., esp. to prevent an opponent from scoring.

Derivative

professionally adv.

THESAURUS

professional

Admirable Crichton, Daedalian, able, academic, accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, artisan, artist, artiste, artistic, at concert pitch, attache, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant, businesslike, career, clean, clever, coached, competent, connaisseur, connoisseur, conscientious, consultant, conversant, coordinated, cordon bleu, crack, crack shot, crackerjack, craftsman, cross-disciplinary, cunning, cute, daedal, dead shot, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist, educated, efficient, elder statesman, excellent, experienced, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, fancy, finished, functional, gifted, good, goodish, gownsman, graceful, graduate, graduate-professional, handy, handy man, industrial, ingenious, initiate, initiated, interdisciplinary, journeyman, knowledgeable, licensed, maestro, magisterial, marksman, master, masterful, masterly, maven, neat, no mean, no slouch, official, old pro, past master, pedagogical, polished, politic, politician, postgraduate, practiced, prepared, primed, pro, professor, proficient, prompt, qualified, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, savant, scholarly, scholastic, schoolish, seasoned, seasoned professional, shark, sharp, skilled, skillful, slick, some, specialist, statesman, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, talented, technical, technical adviser, technician, the compleat, the complete, thorough, trained, veteran, virtuoso, vocational, well-done, whiz, wizard, workmanlike

ROGET THESAURUS

professional

Business

VB pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in, employ oneself in, employ oneself upon, occupy oneself with, concern oneself with, make it one's business, undertake, enter a profession, betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, have to do with, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, drive a trade, carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business, keep a shop, ply one's task, ply one's trade, labor in one's vocation, pursue the even tenor of one's way, attend to business, attend to one's work, officiate, serve, act, act one's part, play one's part, do duty, serve the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions of, hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation, hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation, be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on, have one's hands in, have in hand, have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders, bear the burden, have one's hands full, be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil, pass through one's hands, Adj, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, Adv, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally.

N business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.