professionalization

1. 1.

   the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood

   “the professionalization of American sports”

   “the professionalization of warfare”

   Synonymsprofessionalisation

   Broadersocial process

Other forms of professionalization

plural

professionalizations·

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 professionalization

What does professionalization mean?

professionalization means "the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood".

How many syllables are in professionalization?

professionalization has 9 syllables: pro-fes-si-o-na-li-za-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for professionalization?

Close synonyms include professionalisation. 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 professionalization a common word?

professionalization 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.