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Professional vs Elite - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between professional and elite

is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while elite is a special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.

As adjectives the difference between professional and elite

is that professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession while elite is of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.

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

    elite

    English

    (wikipedia elite)

    Alternative forms

    *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
  • Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
  • * 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
  • Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage="Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite . In one tweet, Mujtahidd directly challenged Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd about his political history: "Did you resign or were you forced to resign from your post as head of the diwan [office] of the council of ministers?"}}
  • Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
  • * 1964 , " France's Culture Corps," Time , 7 Aug.,
  • Is there a nobler or more disinterested aim than to educate the cadres, the elites of tomorrow?

    Derived terms

    * global elite * power elite