professionalise

1. 1.

   become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood

   Synonymsprofessionalize

   Broaderchange
2. 2.

   make professional or give a professional character to

   “Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs”

   Synonymsprofessionalize

   Broaderchange

Other forms of professionalise

past tense

professionalised·

present participle

professionalising·

third person

professionalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about professionalise

What does professionalise mean?

professionalise means "become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in professionalise?

professionalise has 6 syllables: pro-fes-si-o-na-lise. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for professionalise?

Close synonyms include professionalize, professionalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is professionalise a common word?

professionalise 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.