pro‧fes‧sion‧al /prəˈfeshənl/ ♫
▶ adjective
[attrib.] of, relating to, or connected with a profession: young professional people | the professional schools of Yale and Harvard.
(of a person) engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime: a professional boxer.
• having or showing the skill appropriate to a professional person; competent or skillful: their music is both memorable and professional.
• worthy of or appropriate to a professional person: his professional expertise.
• informal, derogatory denoting a person who persistently makes a feature of a particular activity or attribute: a professional naysayer.
▶ noun a person engaged or qualified in a profession: professionals such as lawyers and surveyors.
• a person engaged in a specified activity, esp. a sport or branch of the performing arts, as a main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.
• a person competent or skilled in a particular activity: she was a real professional on stage.
→ pro‧fes‧sion‧al‧ly /-shənl-ē/ adverb
CanOxford dictonary.
Can we please stop the needless semantics arguement now?
Modifié par Ryzaki, 21 janvier 2012 - 02:45 .