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a person engaged in one of the learned professions an athlete who plays for pay 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 pr nonrecreational, professed(a) characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance" engaged in by members of a profession; "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching" white-collar of or relating to a profession; "we need professional advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment for his new office" of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional organizations"; "a professional field such as law" an authority qualified to teach apprentices |
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