Professional vs Rookie - What's the difference?
professional | rookie |
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.
An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
A novice.
An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
(British) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
non-professional; amateur
As nouns the difference between professional and rookie
is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while rookie is an inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.As adjectives the difference between professional and rookie
is that professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession while rookie is non-professional; amateur.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.
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessionalrookie
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* beginner * newbie, new boy * noob * tyro * novice * See alsoAdjective
(-)- The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.
