professional — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(adj.) connected with a job

VERBS

be

ADV

purely, strictly

My doctor keeps our conversations strictly professional, never asking personal questions.

2

(adj.) extremely skilled

VERBS

be, look

Her presentation was very professional, which impressed all the managers in the meeting.

ADV

extremely, highly, really, truly, very

The team's response to the emergency was extremely professional and well-organized.

thoroughly | increasingly | almost | quite, rather

3

(adj.) done as a paid job, not a hobby

VERBS

be | become, turn

ADV

fully

She decided to become fully professional after working part-time for several years.

4

(noun.)

ADJ

committed, dedicated, experienced

real, true

She hired a true professional to renovate her kitchen and the results were excellent.

leading, senior, top

She hired a leading professional to redesign her kitchen and bathroom.

independent

My sister works as an independent professional, managing her own photography business from home.

fellow

My fellow professionals at the hospital always help me when I have difficult questions.

computer, health (care), medical | golf, tennis, etc.

Definitions

noun

1

A person who belongs to a profession.

2

A person who earns their living from a specified activity.

My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.

3

A prostitute.

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

4

A reputation known by name.

5

An expert.

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.

adj

1

Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].

The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.

2

That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.

3

Expert.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an authority qualified to teach apprentices

master

noun — an athlete who plays for pay

pro

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

professional victim

A person who makes it their business to appear perpetually offended and victimized.

These professional victims get a lot of mileage out of their pain. Even though they complain that the price of change is so painful, they never really pay that price because it's t

professional suicide

An action by a person that is expected to ruin their own career.

“As a rule, whistleblowing is an act of professional suicide,” said Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project that defends whistleblowers. The threat of r

Example Bank

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My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly w

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

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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

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His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle rem

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The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally den

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Do you have professional experience?

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, professional is marked as euphemistic. Watch for register when choosing this word.