Professional

Noun

 * 1) A person who belongs to a profession
 * 2) A person who earns his living from a specified activity
 * 3) An expert.
 * 4) * 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
 * 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.

Adjective

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

Derived terms

 * professionalism

Adverbs for Professional
strictly; scarcely; hardly; highly; expertly; self-consciously; ridiculously; absurdly; suddenly; incredibly; pretentiously; obscurely; insistently; consistently; supposedly; emphatically; assertively; dogmatically; formally; solemnly; conspicuously; unmistakably; prodigiously; ostentatiously.

Thesaurus
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

Noun

 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: beroeps, professional
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Mandarin: 專業
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: beroeps, professional
 * Finnish:
 * German: Profi, Professionelle or
 * Greek:


 * Polish: zawodowiec, profesjonalista
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: มืออาชีพ


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Greek:, επιτηδευματίας
 * Mandarin:
 * Polish: profesjonalista, zawodowiec
 * Swedish: ,

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: beroeps-, professioneel
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Romanian: profesional
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Romanian: profesional, profesionist
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Romanian: profesional
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) a professional practicioner of a trade, métier...
 * 2) an expert in a (professional) field

Etymology
From

Related terms

 * professionalism