professionally

adverbattested in dialogue

As a professional; for one's paid career.

adverb

1
As a professional; for one's paid career.
Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.
2
In a professional manner.
You handled that customer's complaint very professionally.
There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.
He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system.

Etymology

Etymology tree English professional Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English professionally From professional + -ly.

Forms

comparative: more professionally
superlative: most professionally

productive · Capable of producing something, especially in abundance;…profession · A declaration of faith. A promise or vow made on entering a…professional · A person who belongs to a profession.

professionally · As a professional; for one's paid career.

professor · The most senior rank for an academic at a university or…Professor · The title for someone who holds the job of professor.profile · The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.

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