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Professional vs Pedestrianism - What's the difference?

professional | pedestrianism |

As nouns the difference between professional and pedestrianism

is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while pedestrianism is a form of competitive walking of the nineteenth century, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of racewalking developed.

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

    pedestrianism

    Noun

    (-)
  • A form of competitive walking of the nineteenth century, often professional and funded by wagering, from which the modern sport of racewalking developed.