professional
/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who belongs to a profession.
noun
A white-collar worker, especially one with a specialized, high-earning job such as a doctor or engineer.
noun
A prostitute.
noun
noun
An expert.
noun
One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
Example Sentences
- "[…]extra income earned this way is normally used for buying consumer goods, such as a cottage, car, boat, and so on, irrespective of whether the recipient is a professional or a tradesman."
- "They devised their own categories in which the working class formed a smaller proportion of the electorate: • I Salariat (managers, administrators, professionals, semi-professionals)"
- "Russian immigrants had the highest percentage of professionals or managers (49 percent)"
- "My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return."
- "There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional."
- "I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; […] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: professhennalle
- Suffix: profession
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/
- British English: /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/