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Definitions of 'professional'
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Professional means relating to a person's work, especially work that requires special training.
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Professional people have jobs that require advanced education or training.
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3.
You use professional to describe people who do a particular thing to earn money rather than as a hobby.
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Pronunciation of 'professional'
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Synonyms of 'professional'
• qualified, trained, skilled [...]
• expert, experienced, finished [...]
• full-time, paid, non-amateur [...]
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Collocations with 'professional'
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I struggled years for technical expertise, professional accomplishment. Jack Kerley THE HUNDREDTH MAN (2002) Val McDermid DEAD BEAT (2002) Val McDermid THE LAST TEMPTATION (2002)
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Translations of 'professional'
English-French
● noun: (=non-amateur) professionnel (professionnelle); (=person with a professional job) professionnel (professionnelle); (=good, reliable person) professionnel (professionnelle) [...]
● adjective: (=non-amateur) professionnel (professionnelle); (=skilled) [work, performance] professionnel (professionnelle); [opinion, judgement, expertise] professionnel (professionnelle); (=work-related) [activities, context] professionnel (professionnelle) [...]
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● adjective: (=non-amateur) [sport, sportsperson, musician] profesional; [soldier] de carrera; (=relating to a profession) profesional [...]
● noun: (=non-amateur) profesional; (=person employed in a profession) profesional; (=expert) profesional, experto (experta) [...]
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English-German
● adjective: Berufs-, beruflich; opinion fachmännisch, fachlich; football, tennis professionell; (= skilled, competent) piece of work etc fachmännisch, fachgemäß, fachgerecht; worker, person gewissenhaft; company, approach professionell; (= expert) performance kompetent, sachkundig, professionell; (inf) worrier, moaner notorisch, gewohnheitsmäßig [...]
● noun: Profi m [...]
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English-Italian
● adjective: (capacity) professionale; (diplomat, soldier) di carriera; (competent, skilled) (worker) esperto/a; (piece of work, approach) da professionista [...]
● noun: professionista [...]
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English-Chinese
● adjective: (work-related:activity, context, capacity) 业务的; (not amateur:photographer, footballer) 职业的; (advice, help) 专业的; (correct:person, attitude) 内行的 [...]
● noun: [count] (doctor, lawyer, teacher) 专业人士; (Sport) 职业运动员; (competent person) 内行 [...]
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English-Portuguese
● noun: profissional [...]
● adjective: profissional; (work) de profissional [...]
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English-Hindi
● adjective before noun: व्यावसायिक, पेशे संबंधी [...]
● countable noun: , पेशेवर व्यक्ति, व्यावसायिक व्यक्ति [...]
● adjective: व्यावसायिक, पेशेवर [...]
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English-Japanese
● adjective: [ADJ n] 専門職の [...]
● countable noun: 専門職の人 [...]
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English-Korean
● adjective: [ADJ n] 직업의 [...]
● countable noun: 전문가 [...]
See entry Professional means relating to a person's work, especially work that requires special training. Romanian: profesional Ukrainian: професійний A professional is a person who belongs to or engages in one of the professions. Romanian: specialist Thai: มืออาชีพ Ukrainian: професіонал You use professional to describe people who do a particular thing to earn money rather than as a hobby. Thai: ที่ทำเป็นอาชีพ, มืออาชีพ'professional' in other languages
