Professional

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Professional \Pro*fes"sion*al\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming
        to the rules or standards of a profession; following a
        profession; as, professional knowledge; professional
        conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional."
        --Macaulay. "A professional sneerer." --De Quincey.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; --
        opposed to {amateur}.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Professional \Pro*fes"sion*al\, n.
     A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a
     livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a
     professional worker.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  professional
       adj 1: engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or
              means of livelihood; "the professional man or woman
              possesses distinctive qualifications"; "began her
              professional career after the Olympics"; "professional
              theater"; "professional football"; "a professional
              cook"; "professional actors and athletes" [ant: {nonprofessional}]
       2: of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional
          organizations"; "a professional field such as law"
       3: characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged
          in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional
          ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance" [ant: {unprofessional}]
       4: of or relating to a profession; "we need professional
          advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment
          for his new office"
       5: engaged in by members of a profession; "professional
          occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
       n 1: a person engaged in one of the learned professions [syn: {professional
            person}]
       2: an athlete who plays for pay [syn: {pro}] [ant: {amateur}]
       3: an authority qualified to teach apprentices [syn: {master}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "professional":
     Admirable Crichton, Daedalian, able, academic, accomplished, adept,
     adroit, apt, artisan, artist, artiste, artistic, at concert pitch,
     attache, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant,
     businesslike, career, clean, clever, coached, competent,
     connaisseur, connoisseur, conscientious, consultant, conversant,
     coordinated, cordon bleu, crack, crack shot, crackerjack,
     craftsman, cross-disciplinary, cunning, cute, daedal, dead shot,
     deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist,
     educated, efficient, elder statesman, excellent, experienced,
     experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, fancy, finished,
     functional, gifted, good, goodish, gownsman, graceful, graduate,
     graduate-professional, handy, handy man, industrial, ingenious,
     initiate, initiated, interdisciplinary, journeyman, knowledgeable,
     licensed, maestro, magisterial, marksman, master, masterful,
     masterly, maven, neat, no mean, no slouch, official, old pro,
     past master, pedagogical, polished, politic, politician,
     postgraduate, practiced, prepared, primed, pro, professor,
     proficient, prompt, qualified, quick, quite some, ready,
     resourceful, savant, scholarly, scholastic, schoolish, seasoned,
     seasoned professional, shark, sharp, skilled, skillful, slick,
     some, specialist, statesman, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful,
     talented, technical, technical adviser, technician, the compleat,
     the complete, thorough, trained, veteran, virtuoso, vocational,
     well-done, whiz, wizard, workmanlike