Usually means: Expertise and conduct in occupation.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word professional:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. professional: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. professional: Merriam-Webster
  3. professional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. professional: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. professional: Collins English Dictionary
  6. professional: Vocabulary.com
  7. Professional, professional, professional: Wordnik
  8. professional: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. professional: Wiktionary
  10. professional: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. professional: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. professional: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. professional: Dictionary.com
  14. professional: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Professional (disambiguation), Professional, The Professional (Parker novel), The Professional (Spenser novel), The Professional (album), The Professional (novel), The Professional: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Professional: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. professional: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. professional: Rhymezone
  19. professional, professional (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. professional: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. professional: FreeDictionary.org
  22. professional: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. professional: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. professional: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. professional: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. professional: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. professional: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. professional: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Professional, professional: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. professional: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See professionally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who belongs to a profession.
noun:  A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
noun:  (euphemistic) A prostitute.
noun:  A reputation known by name.
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.
adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
adjective:  That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
adjective:  (by extension) Expert.

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