professional

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person who belongs to a profession.
2. isim A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
3. isim A prostitute.

   “There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.”

4. isim A reputation known by name.
5. isim An expert.

   “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.”

6. isim One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.
7. sıfat 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;[…].”

8. sıfat That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
9. sıfat Expert.