professional

Plural: professionals

Noun

• a person engaged in one of the learned professions
• an athlete who plays for pay
• an authority qualified to teach apprentices
• A person who belongs to a profession.
• A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
• A prostitute.
• A reputation known by name.
• An expert.
• One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.

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 professional cook"
  • "professional actors and athletes"
• of or relating to or suitable as a profession
  • "professional organizations"
  • "a professional field such as law"
• characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
  • "professional conduct"
  • "professional ethics"
  • "a thoroughly professional performance"
• of or relating to a profession
  • "we need professional advice"
  • "professional training"
  • "professional equipment for his new office"

Adjective Satellite

• engaged in by members of a profession
  • "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"

Adj

• Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
• That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
• Expert.

Examples

• There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.

Synonyms

master, pro, professional person

Antonyms

amateur, nonprofessional, unprofessional

Anagrams of professional