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Dictionary Results for professional:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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, professional person]
    2: an athlete who plays for pay [syn: professional, pro]
       [ant: amateur]
    3: an authority qualified to teach apprentices [syn: master,
       professional]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

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