professionally

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Etymology

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From professional +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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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[1]:
      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.

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