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Specialization vs Professional - What's the difference?

specialization | professional |

As nouns the difference between specialization and professional

is that specialization is the process of specializing while professional is a person who belongs to a profession.

As an adjective professional is

of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

specialization

English

Alternative forms

* specialisation (non-Oxford British spelling)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of specializing.
  • * 1973', , ' Time Enough For Love
  • A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

    Antonyms

    * generalization * abstraction American English forms

    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