professional football

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   football played for pay

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Questions about professional football

What does professional football mean?

professional football means "football played for pay".

Is professional football a common word?

professional football is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.