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Professional vs Minimumweight - What's the difference?

professional | minimumweight |

As nouns the difference between professional and minimumweight

is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while minimumweight is (boxing) the lowest weight category in professional boxing, where boxers may weigh no more than 105 pounds (48 kg).

As an adjective professional

is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

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

    minimumweight

    English

    (wikipedia minimumweight)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (boxing) The lowest weight category in professional boxing, where boxers may weigh no more than 105 pounds (48 kg).
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 2, author=The Associated Press, title=Niida Wins in Title Defense, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The Japanese boxer Yutaka Niida stopped the challenger JosĂ© Varela of Venezuela in the sixth round on in Tokyo to defend his W.B.A. minimumweight title. }}

    Synonyms

    * mini flyweight * strawweight