Usually means: Make more skilled, competent, formal.
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  1. professionalize: Merriam-Webster
  2. professionalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. professionalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. professionalize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. professionalize: Vocabulary.com
  6. professionalize: Wordnik
  7. professionalize: Wiktionary
  8. professionalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. professionalize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. professionalize: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. professionalize: Dictionary.com
  12. professionalize: Rhymezone
  13. professionalize: FreeDictionary.org
  14. professionalize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. professionalize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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verb:  To make something professional
verb:  To advance an occupation to the level of a profession.

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