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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 livelihoodplay

2. make professional or give a professional character toplay

  Familiarity information: PROFESSIONALIZE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROFESSIONALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they professionalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it professionalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: professionalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: professionalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: professionalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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