professionally

English

Etymology

From professional +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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.

Antonyms

• unprofessionally

Translations

in a professional manner

• Catalan: professionalment (ca)
• Esperanto: profesie
• Finnish: ammattimaisesti (fi)
• French: professionnellement (fr)
• Galician: profesionalmente
• Italian: professionalmente (it)
• Polish: profesjonalnie (pl)
• Portuguese: profissionalmente
• Romanian: profesional (ro), în mod profesional
• Slovak: profesionálne, odborne
• Spanish: profesionalmente (es)
• Swedish: professionellt (sv), yrkesmässigt (sv)
• Ukrainian: професі́йно (uk) (profesíjno)