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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun professional has 3 senses

• professional(n = noun.person) professional person - a person engaged in one of the learned professions; Array
is a member of professional organisation, professional organization
is a kind of adult, grownup
has particulars: careerist, craftsman, critic, educator, pedagog, pedagogue, caregiver, health care provider, health professional, pcp, primary care provider, attorney, lawyer, bibliothec, librarian, practician, practitioner, publisher, yuppie

• professional(n = noun.person) pro - an athlete who plays for pay; Array
is a kind of athlete, jock
has particulars: free agent, semipro, semiprofessional
Antonym: amateur

• professional(n = noun.person) master - an authority qualified to teach apprentices; Array
is a kind of authority
has particulars: past master

Adjective professional has 5 senses

• professional(a = adj.all) Array - 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"
Antonym: nonprofessional

• professional(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional organizations"; "a professional field such as law"
• professional(a = adj.all) Array - characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance"
Antonym: unprofessional

• professional(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to a profession; "we need professional advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment for his new office"
• professional(s = adj.all) Array - engaged in by members of a profession; "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"

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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

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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.

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