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Administrative vs Professional - What's the difference?

administrative | professional |

As adjectives the difference between administrative and professional

is that administrative is of or relating to administering or administration while professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

As a noun professional is

a person who belongs to a profession.

administrative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to administering or administration.
  • See also

    * bureaucratic ----

    professional

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia professional) (en noun)
  • A person who belongs to a profession
  • A person who earns his living from a specified activity
  • An expert.
  • * 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
  • I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
  • *
  • *:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
  • (lb) Expert.
  • Derived terms

    * non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessional