When an athlete "goes pro," she goes professional– she is paid for her service rather than doing it on an amateur basis. Other professionals, including doctors and lawyers, are also paid for their work, which, we hope, they conduct in a professional manner.
Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession;
Noun
an authority qualified to teach apprentices
Noun
a person engaged in one of the learned professions
Noun
an athlete who plays for pay
Adjective
engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood; "the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications"; "began her professional career after the Olympics"; "professional theater"; "professional football"; "a pr
Adjective
characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance"
Adjective S.
engaged in by members of a profession; "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
Adjective
of or relating to a profession; "we need professional advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment for his new office"
Adjective
of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional organizations"; "a professional field such as law"
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.
a.
Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race;
-- opposed to amateur.
n.
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or
for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a
professional worker.
Professional
Professional
Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession;
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
Usage Examples
Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
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Other Usage ExamplesBooks constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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