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professional
adjective /prəˈfeʃ·ə·nəl/Definition
› done as a job, or relating to a skilled type of work: a professional athlete professional sports He spent his professional career at the University of Pennsylvania. › Professional also means having the qualities of skilled and educated people, such as effectiveness and seriousness of manner: Wearing jeans to work is not looked upon as being professional.
(Definition of professional adjective from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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