professionally

English

Etymology

From professional +‎ -ly.

Adverb

professionally (comparative more professionally, superlative most professionally)

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.

   • 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.

Antonyms

• unprofessionally

Translations

in a professional manner

Catalan: professionalment (ca) Esperanto: profesie Finnish: ammattimaisesti (fi) French: professionnellement (fr) Galician: profesionalmente Italian: professionalmente (it) Polish: profesjonalnie (pl) Portuguese: profissionalmente Romanian: profesional (ro), în mod profesional Slovak: profesionálne, odborne Spanish: profesionalmente (es) Swedish: professionellt (sv), yrkesmässigt (sv) Ukrainian: професі́йно (uk) (profesíjno)