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PROFESSIONALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does professionalize mean?
• PROFESSIONALIZE (verb)
The verb PROFESSIONALIZE has 2 senses:
1. become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
2. make professional or give a professional character to
Familiarity information: PROFESSIONALIZE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |




Past simple: professionalized


Past participle: professionalized


-ing form: professionalizing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
professionalise; professionalize
Hypernyms (to "professionalize" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
professionalise; professionalize (make professional or give a professional character to)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
professionalization (the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make professional or give a professional character to
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
professionalise; professionalize
Context example:
Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs
Hypernyms (to "professionalize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Verb group:
professionalise; professionalize (become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
professionalization (the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood)
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