PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does professional association mean? 

• PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION (noun)
  The noun PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION has 1 sense:

1. an association of practitioners of a given profession

  Familiarity information: PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An association of practitioners of a given profession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("professional association" is a kind of...):

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

 Context examples 

A professional association of dentists, committed to advancing the public's oral health, the ethical and scientific advancement of the field, and the professional advancement of its members.

(American Dental Association, NCI Thesaurus)