(~s, professionalizing, ~d)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'professionalise'
To ~ an organization, an institution, or an activity means to make it more professional, for example by paying the people who are involved in it.
...the possibility of professionalising local government by offering salaries to senior councillors.
VERB: V n
professionalization
The professionalization of politics is a major source of our ills.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n