Adverb
professionally (comparative more professionally, superlative most professionally)
- As a professional; for one's paid career.
Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.
- In a professional manner.
You handled that customer's complaint very professionally.
2007 July 31, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in The New York Times: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.