Meaning of professional | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
2. That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
3. Expert.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].”

“The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.”

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