professionalship

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From professional +‎ -ship.

Noun[edit]

professionalship (uncountable)

  1. (rare) the condition, status, degree, or office of a professional
    • 1923, Alexander Herd, Clyde Foster, My Golfing Life:
      Many years afterwards I baked a large cake of shortbread as a New Year's surprise to some friends at Huddersfield during my professionalship there.
    • 1929, National Education Association of the United States, Addresses and Proceedings:
      I have benefited more greatly by the high standard of professionalship which it furthers.
    • 1988, G. Kuppuram, India through the ages: history, art, culture, and religion:
      Alberuni praises the efficiency and skilled professionalship of the stone-workers in the following words; "In every place to which some particular holiness is ascribed, the Hindu construct ponds intended for ablutions. [...]

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