Professional
professionals (noun) - people with jobs that require advanced training and high standards (for example, engineer, doctor, lawyer, architect, are all considered professions, but really the word can be applied to almost any job that is trying to create higher standards and self-regulate itself)
professional (adjective)
a professional artist
education professionals (educators)
day-care professionals
library professionals
mental-health professionals
health professionals
receiving professional help
professional associations
the burglary must have been a professional job
a part of professional life
exercise professional discretion
a professional stylist
a professional group
professional bodies (associations)
with a professional interest in this area
in a professional manner
professional cooks
through accepted professional channels
their relationship was trictly professional
of almost professional quality
a busy professional schedule
a professional aromatherapist
a code of professional conduct
professional boxing
the slight tightening professional impatience of Lady Henrietta's lip
sucked in his lips with professional disapproval
a professional journalist
a team of professionals
continuing professional development (CPD)
it's about time they started to act like professionals
as professionals. they were not content to Y
fellow professionals
forging of new alliances between education professionals and other groups
alongside other professionals
amateur discoveries feed vital information to professionals
the professionals take over
well-heeled professionals
must learn and relearn throughout their professional lives
more highly rewarded groups including professionals
practicing professionals
professionals dealing with professionals
Example sentences:
* "By claiming the right to discipline their own members, professional associations largely prevent public scrutiny of their affairs and so maintain the image which they project of themselves."
* "The burglary must have been a professional job say the police."
* "Psychiatrists should continue to be involved in the assessment and management of these patients alongside other professionals."
* "Amateur discoveries of unpredictable events such as comets and novae feed vital information to professionals, who immediately swing specialised equipment into action."
* "It is alarming how often the professionals take over."
* "He have no pretensions about selling this product to the masses, because of course they're really for well-heeled professionals."
* "We're all professionals."
* "As with other professionals, they must learn and relearn throughout their professional lives if they are to keep pace with modern trends and changing needs."
* She kept up to date with risk assessment and risk management issues through continuing professional development (CPD)."
* "Publishing in academic journals should be an important part of a teacher's professional life."
* "The UK Yuppy is supposed to be a young (24-35), well educated and upwardly mobile professional (male or female)."
* "The report asks local authorities to permit librarians to exercise their professional discretion in the selection of stock."
* "She believes that the professional stylist is the best person to advise and prescribe for all your hair care needs."
* "Professional Government information officials will be charged with preparing the programme."
* "Boctors were able to organize themselves into a professional group before the state intervened in medicine and became a major employer of medical practitioners."
* "The goal is to create a forum for interaction amongst users, system developers, IT strategists, business managers, researchers and others with a professional interest in this area."
* "All finalists will be introduced to an appropriate book-keeping system, enabling them to monitor and control their businesses in a professional manner."
* "I think professional cooks have a responsibility to their customers."
* "Such knowledge is progressive, rendering earlier versions of itself obsolete, and it circulates quickly and visibly through the accepted professional channels, like journals and conference-papers."
* The couple has insisted that their relationship was strictly professional right up to their wedding day.
* With a laser-printer anybody can publish text of almost professional quality for a small investment.
* "He greets them in role and apologises for breaking into their busy professional schedules."
* "Should you decide to consult a professional aromatherapist, please see the list of professional bodies in the appendix and do not expect exactly the same treatment from every aromatherapist."
* "The Code of Professional Conduct states..."
* "Please do not tell me that the object of professional boxing is to accumulate points by touching parts of the opponent's head."
* She prattled, watching with some satisfaction the slight tightening professional impatience of Lady Henrietta's lip and the altering glaze of her china-blue eye."
* "The services of a young English professional cook, whose aristocratic connections were almost as important as her culinary skills, rescued her."
* "More and more professional firms are bound by slower cash flow and increasing debt and there is a need to tighten control and increase efficiency."
* "She took an adjacent seat and sucked in his lips with professional disapproval."
* "After a day spent watching the company rehearse, the former professional ballet dancer described its performance as having more to do with the pelvic thrust than an arabesque."
* "Mr Smith's greatest interest for the rest of his life was to help young professionals follow and benefit from the high standards he had set for himself."
* His team is full of professionals.
* "It's a profession and it's about time they started to act like professionals."
* "However, as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers, but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them."
* "Some of his fellow professionals were equally dubious."
* "The new culture will certainly require the forging of new alliances between education professionals and other groups, a redefinition of teacher roles and professional autonomy, a greater willingness to communicate and negotiate."
* "The first section will consider the position of the more highly rewarded groups including professionals, senior managers and administrators, and more successful small business people."
* "They're certainly both splendid and talented professionals."
* "Trainers and practising professionals often need a refresher course."
* "Carrying on investment business without the appropriate authorisation, except where professionals are dealing with professionals, is not only a criminal offence but may render unenforceable any contract entered into."
* "Church groups are providing services for congregations with little help from social services or health professionals."
* "It is a two-year project which started when the Act was implemented last October and its results will provide crucial information for child protection professionals and the criminal justice system."
