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Societal vs Professional - What's the difference?

societal | professional |

As adjectives the difference between societal and professional

is that societal is societal while professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

As a noun professional is

a person who belongs to a profession.

societal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to society or social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
  • * 2010 , Malcolm Knox, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 46:
  • While H5N1 flu is obviously lethal, some milder flus pose a greater societal threat, Professor Mathews says.

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    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