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 

• PROFESSIONALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they professionalize    ... he / she / it professionalizes   
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)