Definition of professional

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Professional (n.) A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker..

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Amateur :: Amateur (n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally..
Professional :: Professional (a.) 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..
Jockey :: Jockey (n.) A professional rider of horses in races.
Prosector :: Prosector (n.) One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist..
Countor :: Countor (v. t.) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause..
Pedestrian :: Pedestrian (n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner..
Graduate :: Graduate (n.) One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
Pugilist :: Pugilist (n.) One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer..
Taglioni :: Taglioni (n.) A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers..
Professionalism :: Professionalism (n.) The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; -- opposed to amateurism..
Danseuse :: Danseuse (n.) A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.
Student :: Student (n.) A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student..
Keener :: Keener (n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.
Attend :: Attend (v. t.) To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve..
Professionally :: Professionally (adv.) In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.
Fool :: Fool (n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments..
Solicitor :: Solicitor (n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney..
Wig :: Wig (n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers..
Honorary :: Honorary (a.) A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars..
Hankey-pankey :: Hankey-pankey (n.) Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery..
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