professional chef
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- noun
- /prəˈfɛʃənl ʃɛf/
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chef profesional
- Professional chefs are like celebrities and rock stars.
- professional chef and cooks
If that's the case, why set her up in this situation with professional chef in a home getting a private meal cooked?
- If that's the case, why set her up in this situation with professional chef in a home getting a private meal cooked?
Examples
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In 2011, Project Angel Heart's professional chefs whipped up over 427,000 meals for over 1,800 clients, many of whom need specially prepared meals.
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A lot of professional chefs use citrus in the way that they might use salt.
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My husband is a professional chef; I'm a former restaurant manager.
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I know that professional chefs use more salt than most of us would use at home.
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A larger proportion of professional chefs I know who operate large restaurant kitchens use sea salt.
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But I've been a professional chef too and know how to streamline stuff if I have to.
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Ramos is a certified professional chef after studying at Cuyahoga Community College.
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Nationwide, other professional chefs are teaching cooking skills to the unemployed.
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Bring your appetite because my dad, a professional chef, will be doing all the cooking.
Synonyms
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A professional cook who leads a restaurant or hotel kitchen
A person who cooks food for a living, usually in a restaurant
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a chef who has formal training and advanced skills' is directly and compositionally derived from 'professional' (skilled/qualified) modifying 'chef' (cook). This simple adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
The compound noun professional chef joins professional, meaning someone trained and paid for a job, and chef, a French word meaning 'head cook'. Picture a trained head cook in charge of a busy kitchen, and you see why it means 'a trained, skilled cook who works in a restaurant'.