Professional vs. Unprofessional — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Professional and Unprofessional
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Definitions
Professional➦
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns a living from a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.
Unprofessional➦
Below or contrary to the standards expected in a particular profession
A report on unprofessional conduct
Professional➦
Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession
Lawyers, doctors, and other professional people.
Unprofessional➦
Not in a profession.
Professional➦
Conforming to the standards of a profession
Professional behavior.
Unprofessional➦
Not a qualified member of a professional group.
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Professional➦
Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career
A professional writer.
Unprofessional➦
Not conforming to the standards of a profession
Unprofessional behavior.
Professional➦
Performed by persons receiving pay
Professional football.
Unprofessional➦
Characteristic of an amateur; inexpert.
Professional➦
Having or showing great skill; expert
A professional repair job.
Unprofessional➦
Unbecoming of a professional; hence inappropriate in the workplace
Unprofessional behavior
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Professional➦
A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.
Unprofessional➦
Lacking a profession.
Professional➦
One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation
Hired a professional to decorate the house.
Unprofessional➦
One who is not a professional.
Professional➦
A skilled practitioner; an expert.
Unprofessional➦
Not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession;
Described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it
Was censured for unprofessional conduct
Unprofessional repairs
Professional➦
A person who belongs to a profession
Professional➦
A person who earns their living from a specified activity
Professional➦
A prostitute
Professional➦
A reputation known by name
Professional➦
An expert
Professional➦
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
Professional➦
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
Professional➦
(by extension) Expert.
Professional➦
Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.
Professional➦
Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; - opposed to amateur.
Professional➦
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
Professional➦
A person engaged in one of the learned professions
Professional➦
An athlete who plays for pay
Professional➦
An authority qualified to teach apprentices
Professional➦
Engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood;
The professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications
Began her professional career after the Olympics
Professional theater
Professional football
A professional cook
Professional actors and athletes
Professional➦
Of or relating to or suitable as a profession;
Professional organizations
A professional field such as law
Professional➦
Characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession;
Professional conduct
Professional ethics
A thoroughly professional performance
Professional➦
Of or relating to a profession;
We need professional advice
Professional training
Professional equipment for his new office
Professional➦
Engaged in by members of a profession;
Professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching
