PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does professional organization mean? 

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

1. an organization of and for professional people

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organization of and for professional people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

professional organisation; professional organization

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

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Meronyms (members of "professional organization"):

professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)

 Context examples 

The world's leading professional organization representing physicians of all oncology disciplines and subspecialties.

(American Society of Clinical Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)

A professional organization that develops and promotes uniform data standards for cancer registration; provides education and training; certifies population-based registries; aggregates and publishes data from central cancer registries; and promotes the use of cancer surveillance data and systems for cancer control and epidemiologic research, public health programs, and patient care to reduce the burden of cancer in North America.

(North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, NCI Thesaurus)