[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

professional \profes"sional\, a.
   1. 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."
      --macaulay. "a professional sneerer." --de quincey.
      1913 webster

   2. engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; --
      opposed to amateur.
      1913 webster
see also:
amateur 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

professional \profes"sional\, n.
   a person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a
   livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a
   professional worker.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

professional
     adj 1: 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" ant: nonprofessional
     2: of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional
        organizations"; "a professional field such as law"
     3: characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged
        in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional
        ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance" ant: unprofessional
     4: of or relating to a profession; "we need professional
        advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment
        for his new office"
     5: engaged in by members of a profession; "professional
        occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
     n 1: a person engaged in one of the learned professions syn: professional
          person
     2: an athlete who plays for pay syn: pro ant: amateur
     3: an authority qualified to teach apprentices syn: master
see also:
nonprofessional unprofessional professional person pro amateur master 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

136 moby thesaurus words for "professional":
   admirable crichton, daedalian, able, academic, accomplished, adept,
   adroit, apt, artisan, artist, artiste, artistic, at concert pitch,
   attache, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant,
   businesslike, career, clean, clever, coached, competent,
   connaisseur, connoisseur, conscientious, consultant, conversant,
   coordinated, cordon bleu, crack, crack shot, crackerjack,
   craftsman, cross-disciplinary, cunning, cute, daedal, dead shot,
   deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist,
   educated, efficient, elder statesman, excellent, experienced,
   experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, fancy, finished,
   functional, gifted, good, goodish, gownsman, graceful, graduate,
   graduate-professional, handy, handy man, industrial, ingenious,
   initiate, initiated, interdisciplinary, journeyman, knowledgeable,
   licensed, maestro, magisterial, marksman, master, masterful,
   masterly, maven, neat, no mean, no slouch, official, old pro,
   past master, pedagogical, polished, politic, politician,
   postgraduate, practiced, prepared, primed, pro, professor,
   proficient, prompt, qualified, quick, quite some, ready,
   resourceful, savant, scholarly, scholastic, schoolish, seasoned,
   seasoned professional, shark, sharp, skilled, skillful, slick,
   some, specialist, statesman, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful,
   talented, technical, technical adviser, technician, the compleat,
   the complete, thorough, trained, veteran, virtuoso, vocational,
   well-done, whiz, wizard, workmanlike

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