Definition for

professional


Pertaining or appropriate to a profession or calling: as, professional studies; professional skill.

Engaged in a profession; being such by profession.

Undertaken or engaged in for money or as a means of subsistence: opposed to amateur: said of sports and amusements: as, a professional base-ball match; a professional performance of a play.

noun – One who regularly pursues any profession or art.

noun – Specifically, a person who makes his living by an art, game, or sport in which amateurs are accustomed to engage for amusement or recreation.

noun – A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

adjective – Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession

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