professional

Adjective

• engaged in by members of a profession
  • professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching
    

• of or relating to a profession
  • we need professional advice
    
  • professional training
    
  • professional equipment for his new office
    

• characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
  • professional conduct
    
  • professional ethics
    
  • a thoroughly professional performance
    

• of or relating to or suitable as a profession
  • professional organizations
    
  • a professional field such as law
    

• 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
    

Noun

• an authority qualified to teach apprentices

• an athlete who plays for pay

• a person engaged in one of the learned professions

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  master , pro , professional person
• Antonyms: 
  unprofessional , nonprofessional , amateur