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Professionalist vs Specialist - What's the difference?

professionalist | specialist |

As nouns the difference between professionalist and specialist

is that professionalist is a person or organisation that supports a professional attitude while specialist is someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.

As an adjective specialist is

(british) specialised.

professionalist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or organisation that supports a professional attitude.
    • Gordon Ramsey is a talented chef, knows his profession and is a professionalist in the kitchen. [http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Food.ReportPost/messageID/193256/threadID/24421/]
  • A professional person.

    • specialist

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British) Specialised.

    • Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia specialist)
  • Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
  • (medicine) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
  • (US, military) Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.

    • Synonyms

    * (Someone who is an expert or devoted to a particular area of study) aficionado, enthusiast, connoisseur

    Antonyms

    * generalist

    Hypernyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * specialistic

    Related terms

    * specialize * subspecialty * subspecialist

    Anagrams

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