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to professionalize

to professionalize

3 6.7
To give training and rules so a job or organization becomes paid and done by skilled people
  • verb
  • /prəˈfɛʃənəˌlaɪz/
  • US
: profesionalizar
  • Obstetricians were beginning to professionalize and raise their status in the medical community by improving their medical education.
  • professionalize teaching
  • professionalize the military
  • professionalize public service

That they might have thought to themselves, you know, maybe what we should do is, is try to, to kind of professionalize our protest movement.

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Examples

  • Efforts are underway to professionalize coaching in youth sports, raising standards and expectations.

  • Both companies also acknowledged the need to professionalize the management of their businesses.

    Academic text (2016)

  • That they might have thought to themselves, you know, maybe what we should do is, is try to, to kind of professionalize our protest movement.

    Megyn Kelly

  • The spending is an attempt by Russia to try and, and professionalize its military to get it back up on its off its knees basically.

    Harvard University

  • So it was like a thing I went to do to take a break from deployment and to better myself and professionalize myself and add some skills, I thought.

  • Such awareness can occur if a professionalized forum is available to provide informed debate and opportunities for learning.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Using these new rights, environmental groups became increasingly professionalized and diversified.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Readers' advisory service will only be professionalized when it is consistently and effectively delivered.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Management nowadays is professionalized and limited to organizing the work in order to deliver efficient and high-quality outcomes.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The most recent appointees have vowed to professionalize the military and to refrain from involvement in domestic politics.

    Academic text (2001)

How Professional

to professionalize
  • US
3 6.7
to standardize
  • US
13 4.2
to formalize
  • US
11 4.9
to organize
  • US
194 1.6

Surface Forms

professionalize infinitive
professionalized past
professionalized past participle
professionalizing present participle
professionalizes third person singular

Morphology

professionalize = professional (transparent) = profession + al + ize

The verb is formed in the regular way from 'professional' with the suffix '-ize', meaning 'make professional' or 'treat in a professional manner'.

Etymology

The word professionalize comes from professional and profession, words that mean 'a job you do for pay'. So to professionalize something is to make it into a proper job or to give it rules, training, and pay so people do it in a skilled, official way.