professional

a person engaged in one of the learned professions an athlete who plays for pay an authority qualified to teach apprentices engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood

"the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications"

"began her professional career after the Olympics"

"professional theater"

"professional football"

"a professional cook"

"professional actors and athletes" of or relating to or suitable as a profession

"professional organizations"

"a professional field such as law" characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession

"professional conduct"

"professional ethics"

"a thoroughly professional performance" of or relating to a profession

"we need professional advice"

"professional training"

"professional equipment for his new office" engaged in by members of a profession

"professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"

This article is about the people called professionals. For the movie, see The Professionals (movie).''A professional works to receive payment for an activity (as a profession), which usually requires expertise and carries with it socially significant mores and folkways (sociology)folkways. That is to say, behaving professionally would indicate that the person's actions remain in accordance with specific rules, written or unwritten, pertaining to behavior, dress, speech, etc. By extension, the adjective ''professional'' can indicate that someone has great expertise or skill in a craft or activity.In narrow usage, not all expertise is considered a profession. Although sometimes referred to as professions, such occupations as construction work are more generally thought of as crafts. The completion of an apprenticeship is generally associated with skilled labor or tradesmantrades such as carpenter, electrician, plumber, and other similar occupations.The opposite of professional is amateur or, disparagingly, "rank amateur." Sometimes an amateur can perform as well or better than a professional, but this tends to be an exception. Therefore, in many fields a person must overcome a barrier before gaining recognition as a professional. Such barriers include academic degrees, certifications, or licenses. Professions with such barriers include those of accountancy, architectarchitecture, doctormedicine, engineering, lawyerlaw, librarianlibrarianship, nursenursing, social work and teaching. Sometimes the professional status of an activity is controversial, for example there is debate as to whether or not professionals should be allowed to compete in the Olympic Games.It has been suggested that the crude, all or nothing categories, of professional or amateur should be reconsidered. A historical shift is occurring with the rise of Pro-Ams, a new category of people that are pursuing amateur activities to professional !standards.Category:Occupations da:Professionelde:Profija: 503;ロフェ&# 12483;ショナ ル

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