professional life
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2.8
- noun
- /prəˈfɛʃənl laɪf/
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vida profesional
- During her professional life, she worked in various roles that contributed to her growth and expertise.
- personal and professional life
- enrich your own professional life
- successful professional life
This week has been kind of tough in regards to my professional life with the podcast.
- This week has been kind of tough in regards to my professional life with the podcast.
- That's my that's my goal for my professional life.
- Which can mean this is my professional life, this is my private life, for example.
- How is it professional wise in your professional life?
- That is such an exciting development just in in, you know, my professional life.
- You and I, without going into the details, have been bullied all to hell in our professional lives.
- Jesse's had busiest year year of her professional life and so she's been like, you know, running like crazy.
- I think it's hard when you have two people who are extremely focused on their professional lives and neither one of them has time for the relationship.
- Our long twilight struggle from terrorism because that long war may persist well into our children's adulthood and professional lives.
- Actually, in my professional life as a mathematician, finding shortcuts, finding those shortcuts can take a very long time.
- You can't imagine how fucking fun my professional life is to me.
- And now I, I want to move on a little bit from the professional life and moving to bit more your personal experience.
Examples
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I spend much of my professional life dealing with the darker side of human nature.
Fiction book (1991) -
And for the first time in my professional life, I'm a part of something I believe in.
Fiction book (1996) -
You will have a better professional life with a good personal life
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The biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today.
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Your whole professional life may be at stake.
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How do you know it is time to make a major change in your professional life?
Academic text (1995) -
I think it's hard when you have two people who are extremely focused on their professional lives and neither one of them has time for the relationship.
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Dr. Coletti's professional life is not on trial here.
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Numerous examples exist of female astronomers whose professional lives were thus ended.
Academic text (1993) -
Sanchez's essay then provides a glimpse into the professional lives of the students he trains to do precisely that.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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1.8
The jobs a person does during their working life
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2.7
A series of jobs someone has during their working life that lead to higher roles
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3.5
Part of a person's life spent working in business or a job
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'professional' (relating to one’s occupation or career) with 'life' (the period of existence), yielding the period of a person’s life spent working. This compositional pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so an average B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase professional life comes from the simple image of the part of your life that is about your professional role, the work and training you do. So it means the time and activities in a person's life that belong to 'work' or a chosen 'career'.