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Professional vs Revisor - What's the difference?

professional | revisor |

As nouns the difference between professional and revisor

is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while revisor is (translation studies) a person who verifies the quality of a translated text in professional translation project management.

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

    revisor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (translation studies) A person who verifies the quality of a translated text in professional translation project management.
  • * 2005 , Christiane Nord, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting , edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 218:
    • [T]ranslation practice during training should, at least in part, be organised in projects where each student has the chance to play various roles: that of client, of revisor , of terminologist of documentation assistant, of free-lancer, of in-house translator working for a translation company, etc.
  • (legal, US) In several states, an official charged with the responsibility for making new statutes technically consistent with the existing body of law.

    • Alternative forms

    * reviser