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UK
/pɹəfˈɛʃənəlˌaɪz/
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VERB
- become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
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make professional or give a professional character to
Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs
How To Use professionalise In A Sentence
- Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
- The need for EA seems to be more pressing than ever, yet efforts to professionalize EA do not necessarily lead to increased credibility and adoption, at least not yet.
- At the end of the nineteenth century, anthropology and sociology were, like history, becoming professionalized.
- I think that it is recognized that there is a further need to professionalize the activities that they are conducting.
- The core responsibility of the job was to develop and professionalize the international retail network.
- There is no doubt that people came from all works of life -- east, west, north, south, everywhere -- but I am saying this is a rented crowd, anyone can do it and increasingly, this rent-a-crowd business has become so professionalized because there is a very high level of unemployment. Former Nigerian Military Leader Enters Presidential Race
- Although this year's applicant pool is by many measures the most highly qualified yet, admissions deans at a dozen top-tier colleges and universities said in interviews last week that they're also seeing a disappointing trend: Too many students are submitting "professionalized" applications rendered all too slick by misguided attempts at perfection, parental meddling and what one admissions dean describes as the robotlike approach teens are taking in presenting themselves. How Not to Get Into College: Submit a Robotic Application
- The term ‘graphic design’ took hold in the years after the Second World War as a way of describing and promoting an increasingly professionalised form of activity.
- In El Salvador in the 1980s, 55 special forces troops beat back a guerrilla insurgency while gradually integrating renegade militias into a newly professionalized national army.
- To professionalize the deputy to the National People's Congress, China gain some enlightenment from the practice of full-time parliament members in the Western countries.