professional football
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- noun
- /prəˈfɛʃənl ˈfʊtbɔl/
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fútbol profesional
- It is a fine day for professional football here in Chicago.
- professional football player
- professional football team
- women's professional football
I would have done anything to have a gay professional football player in the NFL so that I could have looked and been like, I want to be like him.
- I would have done anything to have a gay professional football player in the NFL so that I could have looked and been like, I want to be like him.
- There's probably more, but the two things do you think there is widespread use of either or both in professional football?
- To play one minute of football, professional football I think is a success.
Examples
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Many young athletes dream of pursuing a career in professional football.
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The regeneration of women's professional football began in 1999 with the Women's Professional Football League (WPFL).
Academic text (2006) -
Greatest team... in the history of professional football.
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The game of professional football has come of age.
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What would you say if I told you I was a professional football player?
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Since World War Two, professional football has had the most remarkable growth.
Academic text (1991) -
Professional football is a business...
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Antonio Gates is one of the better tight ends to ever play professional football.
Blog text (9) -
That's why some athletes who play professional football, for example, start every game and every training with the big three.
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I'm here on Franklin Street with Vince Papale, a bartender at Max's Bar and Grill and perhaps future professional football player with the Philadelphia Eagles.
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'professional' (paid athlete) + 'football' (the sport) clearly yields 'football played for payment'. This adjective + noun combination follows standard, cross-linguistically common semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the phrase.
Etymology
Professional football comes from the word professional, meaning someone who is 'paid' to do a job, and football, the sport. When players began to get money instead of playing just for fun, people used professional football to mean 'football played for payment'.