professionalize

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsprofessionalise

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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”

   Synonymsprofessionalise

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Other forms of professionalize

past tense

professionalized·

present participle

professionalizing·

third person

professionalizes·

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 professionalize

What does professionalize mean?

professionalize 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 professionalize?

professionalize has 5 syllables: pro-fes-sio-na-lize. The stress falls on "fes". In IPA it is /pɹəˈfɛʃənəˌlaɪz/.

What is another word for professionalize?

Close synonyms include professionalise, professionalise. 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 professionalize a common word?

professionalize 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.

What rhymes with professionalize?

83 words rhyme with professionalize. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.