professional

1 general:: professional nouns professional advice • Everyone considering buying a house should seek professional advice. professional help • It is very important for parents to get professional help if this problem arises. professional qualifications • Many of the courses lead directly to professional qualifications. professional training • All the charity’s workers are volunteers, without professional training. professional standards • The Law Society’s function is to maintain the highest professional standards. a professional body/association (= organization that people from a particular profession can belong to ) • Is your architect a member of a professional body? a professional career • After retiring from sport, he began his professional career as a journalist. sb’s professional life • At this point she took the biggest risk of her professional life.

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2 general:: adj. competent: She worked in a professional manner. adj. expert: He was a professional driver.

Simple Definitions

3 general::   adj. connected with a job VERBS be ADV. purely, strictly He insisted that his relationship with the duchess was purely professional. extremely skilled VERBS be, look Their designs look very professional. ADV. extremely, highly, really, truly, very He dealt with the problem in a highly professional way. | thoroughly | increasingly | almost | quite, rather done as a paid job, not a hobby VERBS be | become, turn ADV. fully He wants to turn fully professional.,   noun ADJ. committed, dedicated, experienced | real, true This is the work of a real professional. | leading, senior, top a top golf professional | independent The survey should be performed by an independent professional. | fellow an actor revered by his fellow professionals | computer, health (care), medical | golf, tennis, etc.NOTEprofessionalsbe, practise as ~ to practise as a consulting engineeract as ~ She is acting as architect on this project.have ~ The group does not have an internal auditor.need ~ We need an engineer to design us something better.find ~ It pays to find a good accountant.appoint, appoint sb (as), engage, get, instruct ~ Appoint a solictor to act on your behalf.consult (with), get/take advice from, go to, see, speak to, talk to ~ I demand to speak to my lawyer!an advocate, barrister, lawyer, solicitor acts for/defends/represents sban in-house lawyer acting for a major companyadvise sb/sth ~ His accountant has advised him to close down his business. JOB

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