professional

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  CIRCUS PROFESSIONALS PRACTISING A FEAT OF BALANCING
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj professional 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"
  • adj professional characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession "professional conduct","professional ethics","a thoroughly professional performance"
  • adj professional engaged in by members of a profession "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
  • adj professional of or relating to a profession "we need professional advice","professional training","professional equipment for his new office"
  • adj professional of or relating to or suitable as a profession "professional organizations","a professional field such as law"
  • n professional an authority qualified to teach apprentices
  • n professional a person engaged in one of the learned professions
  • n professional an athlete who plays for pay
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A PROFESSIONAL BEGGAR

• Interesting fact: The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest professional baseball team
• • n Professional A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
  • Professional Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.
  • Professional 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 .""A professional sneerer."
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• Interesting fact: Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand
• • professional Pertaining or appropriate to a profession or calling: as, professional studies; professional skill.
  • professional Engaged in a profession; being such by profession.
  • professional Undertaken or engaged in for money or as a means of subsistence: opposed to amateur: said of sports and amusements: as, a professional base-ball match; a professional performance of a play.
  • n professional One who regularly pursues any profession or art.
  • n professional Specifically, a person who makes his living by an art, game, or sport in which amateurs are accustomed to engage for amusement or recreation. The term thus more specifically designates professional musicians, actors, ballplayers, oarsmen, boxers, etc.
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• Interesting fact: The New York Yankees have won the most champoinships (26 times) in their respected sport (MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL) for any professional sports team.
• • adj Professional pertaining to a profession: engaged in a profession: undertaken as a means of subsistence, as opposed to Amateur.—n. one who makes his living by an art, as opposed to an amateur who practises it merely for pastime
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• Alistair Cooke

  

  “A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”
• Garson Kanin

  

  “Amateurs hope, professionals work.”
• Lord Northcliffe

  

  “A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.”
• Felix Frankfurter

  

  “We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.”
• Ogden Nash

  

  “Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.”
• Frank Tyger

  

  “Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.”

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