Professional vs Professionalization - What's the difference?
professional | professionalization |
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:
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
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*: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.
The act or process of professionalizing, or becoming professional.
*2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 64:
*:Their relative success formalized the idea of law enforcement for payment, and helped accelerate the professionalization of policing.
As nouns the difference between professional and professionalization
is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while professionalization is the act or process of professionalizing, or becoming professional.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)- 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.