professional
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3.4
- adjective
- /prəˈfɛʃənl/
- Her professional skills in negotiation helped secure the best deal for the company.
- professional development
- professional counseling
- professional school
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Watch on YouTubeIt is so professional and I'm a huge fan.
- It is so professional and I'm a huge fan.
- Now I've sought, I've sought professional help since I've come back.
- And that also now remember she was a professional escort.
- So show up early, be professional, change your ways.
- profound personal and professional change starts with you.
- Is it afflicting professional schools and graduate schools?
- But in Sinaloa there is a professional chef driven industry.
- This nice wool coat again looks professional yet chic and stylish.
- You have to be real professional in that part to deal with that.
- He's the most professional player I ever met.
- My, my primary professional opinion is Bitcoin's good.
- But I mean, this year, like I said, the professional piece is just.
- He inherited a bit of an amateur professional kind of bunch.
Examples
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With her reputation for being hard-working and professional, Selena seems headed for a bright future.
Academic text (2011) -
It's just overall more professional and more modern in here.
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Like it's a, it's a fairly professional look from these guys.
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Following his early retirement, he worked as a professional mentor for a local training company.
Academic text (2011) -
Yeah, she's always so nice and professional.
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This is a professional workplace, Katy.
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The team delivered a professional presentation that impressed everyone in the room.
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It's important to maintain a professional demeanor during job interviews to make a good impression.
Synonyms
165
3.5
Very skilled and knowing a lot about a particular area
Antonyms
Compounds
14
3.5
A person with special training who works in jobs like a lawyer, doctor or engineer
A group of people with the same job who support members and set standards for their work
8
2.2
A kind of sport put on as a show with paid performers and planned results
5
3.6
An organization of people with the same job who support each other's work
- Offensive
1
8.2
A person who often pretends to suffer to get attention or personal gain
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4.8
A relationship between a trained helper and a person who gets their help, like a doctor or lawyer
How Professional
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5.3
165
3.5
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3.4
134
3.6
175
3.5
60
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
professional = profession (transparent) = profession + al
The adjective is formed in the regular way from 'profession' with the suffix '-al', so the meaning is straightforwardly related to a profession.
Etymology
Professional comes from the verb profess meaning 'to say openly' and the noun profession meaning 'a declared job'. So professional as an adjective describes the skill and behaviour people expect from someone trained for a job.