LekhoriLekhoriA person who belongs to a profession.
A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
A prostitute.
There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
From Middle English professhennalle, professhynalle; equivalent to profession + -al.
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Expert.