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Professional vs Semiprofessional - What's the difference?

professional | semiprofessional |

As nouns the difference between professional and semiprofessional

is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while semiprofessional is a semiprofessional person.

As adjectives the difference between professional and semiprofessional

is that professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession while semiprofessional is paid as a professional but on a part-time basis.

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

    semiprofessional

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Paid as a professional but on a part-time basis.
  • Like a professional but not as skilled or experienced, more than an amateur but lower than a full professional in quality.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A semiprofessional person.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 12, author=John Biggs, title=Get the Big Picture, or Focus on One Face, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=A lot of cameras have optical zoom and high megapixel counts, but Sony ’s new Cyber-shot HX1 has a few features that might even appeal to semiprofessionals . }}