Read the dictionary definition of professional. All definitions for this word.
1. an authority qualified to teach apprentices
2. a person engaged in one of the learned professions
3. an athlete who plays for pay
4. engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
1. the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications
2. began her professional career after the Olympics
3. professional theater
4. professional football
5. a professional cook
6. professional actors and athletes
5. characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
1. professional conduct
2. professional ethics
3. a thoroughly professional performance
6. engaged in by members of a profession
1. professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching
7. of or relating to a profession
1. we need professional advice
2. professional training
3. professional equipment for his new office
8. of or relating to or suitable as a profession
1. professional organizations
2. a professional field such as law
