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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.

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Paid 84% connected

Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

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Paid 84% connected

Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

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Professed 84% connected

of Profess

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Professed 84% connected

of Profess

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Athlete 76% connected

One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

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Authority 76% connected

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Attorney 76% connected

A substitute; a proxy; an agent.

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Bibliothec 76% connected

A librarian.

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Critic 76% connected

One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc.…

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Educator 76% connected

One who educates; a teacher.

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Lawyer 76% connected

One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence…

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Librarian 76% connected

One who has the care or charge of a library.

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Pedagog 76% connected

Pedagogue.

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Pedagogue 76% connected

A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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Practician 76% connected

One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

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Practitioner 76% connected

One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.

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Publisher 76% connected

One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.

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Pertains to 1

Profession 66% connected

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

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Master 92% connected

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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Pro 92% connected

A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.

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Nonprofessional 94% connected

Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.

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Nonprofessional 94% connected

Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.

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