I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business/professional relationship
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Both companies want to continue their business relationship into the future.
a golf professional
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Jack's hoping to become a golf professional.
a professional career
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You have to be outstanding to have a professional career in music.
a professional coach (= one whose job is teaching a sport )
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The tennis club has a professional coach.
a professional exam (= to qualify in a profession, for example to be an accountant )
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Once you’ve passed your professional exams, you can start to build up your experience.
a professional qualification British English (= one relating to a professional job, such as a teacher, lawyer etc )
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A professional qualification in accountancy would be an advantage.
a professional/amateur actor
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It isn’t easy to become a successful professional actor.
a professional/trained counsellor
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Seek help from a professional counsellor if things go wrong.
amateur/professional golf
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The standard of women's amateur golf is certainly improving.
health professional
managerial/professional etc incompetence
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allegations of professional incompetence
personal/professional/political etc integrity
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a man of great moral integrity
professional background
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Managers can come from a wide range of professional backgrounds.
professional competence
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The courses will improve the skills and professional competence of the staff.
professional conduct
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There are strict rules that regulate lawyers’ professional conduct.
professional expertise (= skills requiring special education and training )
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A health and safety inspector will be glad to give you the benefit of his professional expertise.
professional football
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It was his dream to play professional football one day.
professional foul
professional help
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You need to seek some professional help.
professional jealousy (= between people who do the same kind of work )
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Feelings of professional jealousy can upset the workings of an office.
professional misconduct
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a doctor who has been accused of professional misconduct
professional occupations/white-collar occupations (= jobs that usually involve a lot of education )
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professional occupations such as medicine or the law
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Teachers’ pay compares poorly with that of other white-collar occupations.
professional recognition
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My father craved professional recognition.
professional sport(s) (= which people are paid to do )
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The kind of money involved in professional sport makes cheating inevitable.
professional standards (= within a particular profession )
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The institutions have an evident interest in maintaining professional standards.
professional status
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His ambition was to attain the highest professional status.
professional wrestling
professional/business/medical ethics (= the moral rules relating to a particular profession )
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public concern about medical ethics
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a code of ethics
professional/expert/specialist advice
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It’s advisable to get professional advice before starting any building work.
professional/political obscurity (= not known about in your profession or in politics )
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After his defeat, he sank into political obscurity.
the professional class (= the people with professional jobs )
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Doctors, lawyers, and teachers are all members of the professional class.
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■ NOUN
advice
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Also concerned are the Gloucestershire fire service who suggested the organisers should take professional advice .
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No fuss, no muss and no need for professional advice .
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A hydrogeologist and an isotope chemist provided professional advice to the ongoing geothermal resource study.
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More than ever, clear thought and sound professional advice is required.
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Have the flexibility of being able to shop around for the best possible deals and get the best professional advice .
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Full time welfare officers represent individuals at pension tribunals, and are able to offer professional advice on legal matters and housing.
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Philip Redfern suggested it should become standard practice for statisticians to put their professional advice on the record.
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The committee may need independent professional advice .
advisers
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Shortlisted parties will also be given access to the vendors' various professional advisers to obtain information and to discuss specific areas.
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How effective is the intervention of family health services authority professional advisers measured by reanalysis of prescribing analysis and cost data?
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Long-term solutions, which could involve agreed workouts and profit participations, require input from all the company's professional advisers .
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One recommendation in the Imro report concerns the professional advisers to the companies involved.
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This may not matter too much if they have professional advisers on whom they could rely.
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Will the Minister tell us the names of the professional advisers ?
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He must not simply say that there will be professional advisers .
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Prescribing in general practice All non-fundholding practices have indicative prescribing amounts set and monitored by professional advisers .
association
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Perhaps they will offer Continuing Education Units, as nurses' groups and other professional associations do.
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Yet realistically this dilemma is likely to be brief as long as employers hold the key to one's livelihood rather than the professional association .
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The professional associations representing accountants sponsor numerous courses, seminars, group study programs, and other forms of continuing education.
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The teacher unions and professional associations have produced clear and accurate documents for their members which inevitably highlight these problems.
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Join all the relevant trade and professional associations .
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There could also be more dialogue between practitioners, their managers and their professional associations about issues that might benefit from research.
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There are a variety of professional associations of doctors, nurses and teachers which give tacit support to the regime.
body
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The firm's accounting practices should be open to inspection by the local professional body .
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It is likely that in future further legal professions or professional bodies as appropriate will be added to the two lists.
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Experts are frequently appointed by professional bodies acting as appointing authorities.
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You may need to develop contacts with schools, special agencies, universities, the Department of Employment, professional bodies and so on.
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Parallel with his teaching was Hinchley's concern with professional bodies .
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Benefits of Membership Membership of a professional body with approximately 100,000 members worldwide.
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Trade and professional bodies have been invited to comment on a consultation paper.
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The bill envisages that non-lawyers belonging to professional bodies may be given rights to conduct litigation in some types of cases.
capacity
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Such as a function you have to attend in your professional capacity ?
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She is, in her professional capacity , the site of convergence of many discourses but the generator of none.
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Although I regularly travel through it, this will be in a professional capacity .
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It takes into account their experience, any special knowledge and also whether they are acting in a business or professional capacity .
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Clearly, a bank trust corporation will qualify and so should an accountant acting in a professional capacity .
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It has raised the profile of solicitors that when we act for clients, we act in a professional capacity .
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In a professional capacity , I mean.
career
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I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career .
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His father was a full back in his professional career before he joined the Northern League circuit as a manager.
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As young adults, each trains successfully for a professional career and enters that career.
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Most graduate nurses start their professional careers in clinical nursing.
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And the potential reward was a professional career .
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The candidate's professional career must show a clear progression and unquestionable achievements.
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Or the heavy demands of professional careers .
class
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His methods had an appeal among the wealthy, professional classes who made up the congregation.
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Recruited from the artisan and professional classes , this group did not stay.
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He was served by a professional class of Ottoman civil servants and soldiers.
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It also attracts many from the middle or professional classes who have a commitment to social and economic justice.
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Among women of the professional classes especially, individual men are still the focus of potent fantasies.
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New merchant and professional classes arose and a proletariat developed out of the peasantry.
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The new leadership proved more diffuse - beyond the narrow confines of the traditional élite and professional classes - and younger.
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Unfortunately the current rules permit this competitor to compete in the amateur class instead of the professional class.
competence
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Licentiateship, Graduateship, Membership and Fellowship awards are available as a means of recognising professional competence to the highest levels.
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They need to provide better information and more evidence of courtesy, caring and professional competence , researchers concluded.
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For example, in professional education, professional competence is equally important, if not more so.
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Whom you see depends sometimes on professional competence and journalistic ability.
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All however, share the aim of developing professional competence .
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Voluntary certification can attest to professional competence in a specialized field of accounting and auditing.
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When the pressure is on to respond to an event after it happens, the client will then judge your professional competence .
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Less formally educated people can acquire professional competence .
conduct
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This book aims to help the conveyancer make a business success of the proper professional conduct of the commercial art of conveyancing.
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Like the other office-holders, I am debarred by my office from membership of the professional conduct committees.
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Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice.
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They reported that, while our professional conduct department represented good value for money, it was grossly overloaded.
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A separate matter of particular importance is the regulation by the Law Society of the professional conduct of solicitors.
development
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It is also necessary to distinguish two parameters of professional development .
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The consequence of this availability of time and support for professional development is not a homogeneous staff.
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It is possible to obtain a high percentage of your continuing professional development hours by this method.
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We must provide teachers with proven materials, methods and professional development to put into practice what we know how to do.
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Team teaching, or something very like it, is an important element in the continuing professional development of the teacher.
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Do you have a sense of humor?-Are you interested in professional development ?
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This module provides a research framework to help teachers examine some aspect of their own professional development .
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They supported curriculum development and professional development for teachers and work-site mentors.
education
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For example, in professional education , professional competence is equally important, if not more so.
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For Teravainen, that one terse comment from Hill proved to be important in his professional education .
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Where, finally, are the people with professional education , the technicians, machinists and manufacturers to skilfully run the industries.
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Now the question of Mohandas' professional education arose.
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First, there are the changes in the professions themselves which necessitate changes in professional education .
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But the development of continuing education must eventually have a backwash effect on initial professional education at the undergraduate stage.
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Make clear to your new employer that you are looking forward to continuing your professional education .
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This makes the attitudinal and affective element of professional education especially important.
football
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Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players.
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In San Diego, professional football had come to town.
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I was real good at sports and I wanted to be a professional football player.
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Playing sport as opposed to watching professional football was identified with acceptance of school authority.
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Justice, like professional football , is a game controlled by the rules of economics.
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One year in the 1960s, Nicholson says, Grambling had 43 players on professional football rosters.
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Jurors took less than a half-hour Thursday to clear professional football star Warren Moon of assaulting his wife.
golf
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They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game.
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Almost every person who plays follows professional golf with something approaching befuddlement.
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My uncle, Ramon Sota, was playing professional golf and so were all my brothers.
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When you play professional golf you lose the ability to play simply for fun.
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He said professional golf was too financially-what word did he use?-insecure.
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He always associated professional golf with money.
group
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This, after all, is the position in which every other professional group finds itself.
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A flat organizational structure, appropriate to a professional group , reflects the high priority given to upward power.
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Viceversa, the proportion of the professional group living in grossly under-occupied housing is twice as great.
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A final problem with applying traditional measurement techniques to white-collar professional groups was that traditional measurement focused primarily on efficiency.
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Similarly, professional groups possessing key skills can often rely on employers' dependence upon them.
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There will be much talk about the history of the professional group and its institutions.
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Sad to say, professional groups are little better, and possibly slightly worse, than average.
help
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But for many people, the best solution may be a combination of tax software and professional help .
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Name of Consortium - should we try to get professional help with this? 8.
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Your spouse might be able to help you, or you may need to seek professional help.
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I know that you have financial problems, but there must be a way to get the professional help you need.
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The extent to which bereavement is worked through depends on self-awareness, external support, professional help and general attitudes.
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After several weeks of sleepless nights, Walter sought professional help .
integrity
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Before turning to the individual arguments for teaching history it would be worthwhile emphasising the professional integrity of history teachers.
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So, how do you compete, while maintaining a business tone and professional integrity ?
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They needed the scrupulous professional integrity which nearly proved such a stumbling block to them in this case.
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But from the start it was committed to journalistic and professional integrity .
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Total professional integrity ! he smoothed.
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Forget your professional integrity , Caroline.
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Can he lend his name to the petition without compromising his professional integrity ?
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This upgrade places Dreamweaver firmly back in the middle ground without compromising the professional integrity of previous releases.
job
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Carla had done a fairly professional job of staving in the rotten planks, that was all.
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But he quickly learned that at his age it was next to impossible to find a professional job in San Francisco.
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Although primarily concerned with routine white-collar work, Braverman does believe that some professional jobs have also become deskilled.
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Those targets range from 12 percent to 25 percent of the professional jobs .
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Women are systematically excluded from top managerial and professional jobs , as well as from skilled manual labour.
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He had to admit to himself that Zhukov had executed a most professional job .
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They also acquired higher proportions of managerial and professional jobs than the other parts of the country.
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It was a very professional job .
judgement
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In what follows I have used my interviews with parents as a counterpoint to a professional judgement .
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His professional judgement , on which so much depended, suggested intuition rather than ratiocination.
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He's never allowed his dislike, personal or otherwise, to influence his professional judgement in any way.
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The assessment relies largely on a combination of operational experience and professional judgement .
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Another important feature is the professional judgement needed to discontinue the nurse/patient relationship when it is no longer relevant.
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But personal belief and professional judgement have not received the same attention.
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If parents reject advice - and assuming you can not compromise your professional judgement - respect them and leave.
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There must also be professional judgement that further incidents are likely.
life
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This is something he has carried in a big way into his later professional life .
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If you have two children, that can add up to somewhere between five and ten years out of your professional life .
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Collins is the amorous object of a football referee's fantasy which affects his professional life on the field.
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Quite the contrary, the purpose is to learn something about yourself for use in both your personal and professional life .
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It provides students with the language and communicative skills they will need in their professional lives .
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Their problems arise because their love lives are as frustrating as their professional lives are rewarding.
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An informal, word-of-mouth fraternity was the only structure which controlled their professional lives .
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The grin is the afterglow of what Fonda describes as the most fulfilling job in his professional life , playing Ulee Jackson.
man
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Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty.
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He lived in Washington, a professional man , as much as anyone else in that town.
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The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men .
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I was a lawyer, a professional man who worked within a set of professional ethics.
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One way or another there would be a professional man in the family.
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It is far higher-and rising-among unskilled men than among professional men.
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All the victims are professional men and three, possibly four, were known homosexuals.
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Even professional men , it seems, would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills.
misconduct
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Serious or persistent breach of the standards could amount to professional misconduct .
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He denied he had ever been guilty of professional misconduct , and he was just about to be disbarred in New York.
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The council alleged serious professional misconduct after Mr Cole failed to give a patient a signed statement or prescription.
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In 1982 he was found guilty of serious professional misconduct and undertook not to let it happen again.
people
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Teaching is supposed to be a creative activity, carried out by professional people , not by robots.
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We have professional people living here, accountants, biologists and others.
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This information suggests Clios are proving particularly popular with women and professional people .
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Anyway, professional people can end up homeless just like anyone else.
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Many hold down regular jobs and quite a few are highly-paid, professional people .
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Both were professional people with a vested interest in helping people - a doctor and a Baptist minister.
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It was a leafy place; professional people , merchants, senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time.
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There were Democratic party militants, anarchists, people with no party, workers, small businessmen, intellectuals, professional people.
practice
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There is no substitute for truly professional practice in this regard.
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What it does not do, of course, is to prescribe an appropriate style of professional practice .
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In addition many courses involve periods of unpaid professional practice and work experience within the academic year.
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It explores the inter-relationships between official policy and professional practice and their adaptation to each other.
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These courses are strongly orientated towards industry and professional practice .
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Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice .
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The Sub-Committee continued its review of the professional practice examination system.
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The procedures adopted on enquiries are a complete contrast to those in professional practice .
qualification
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This trend has been accompanied by improved professional training and a significant rise in the numbers holding professional qualifications .
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On the job training can lead to City &038; Guilds qualifications , as well as to more advanced courses and professional qualifications.
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A professional qualification in accountancy would be an advantage.
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This degree will provide the graduate with an excellent basis for pursuing a professional qualification with one of the accountancy bodies.
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Each year some graduates take this opportunity while others study for a professional qualification .
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Obtaining any professional qualification requires not only vocation and commitment, but also great investment in both personal and financial terms.
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The new rules laid greater emphasis on economic factors such as professional qualifications and work skills.
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It is also usual to specify a professional qualification .
responsibility
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We talk of the individual consumer, individual professional responsibilities , individual responsibilities within the family, and so on.
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Will we display more of the statesmanship, selflessness, and disregard for monetary advantage associated with public service and professional responsibility ?
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It is aimed at both local authorities and librarians to remind them of the professional responsibilities of librarians.
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Graduates, after all, pass into society and take up significant posts of managerial or professional responsibility .
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Schools have a professional responsibility to offer guidance to young people in transition to work.
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To feel good about myself is my top professional responsibility .
service
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Or, call a professional service to remove the nest.
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Now it is a major shopping centre and a centre for professional services and newspaper printing.
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Private firms routinely send professional service raters out to check the quality of their banks, supermarkets, and restaurants.
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We are a totally independent company dedicated to providing a high level of professional services to users of all Lotus software.
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For example, much of the public service and professional service of the authors do not get exposed.
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Banks, accountants, advertising agencies and many other providers of professional services are the camp followers of the multinational army.
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Partnership prevails over hierarchy in most professional service firms like McKinsey.
skill
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This approach can only be created on the basis of managerial trust in the professional skills and attitudes of teachers.
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They lack the professional skills to do it themselves and can not afford to hire lawyers to do it for them.
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Business management, as mentioned earlier, is not recognised as a professional skill in its own right.
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It also provides professional skills in the use of radio, video and print media for religious, cultural and educational programming.
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The books demystify language teaching theory, and provide invaluable background knowledge which will extend professional skills .
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Today's lawyer needs modern business management skills as well as the old professional skills to succeed.
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And it is an improvement which only they have the requisite professional skills and training to undertake.
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In other words, management must continue to develop their own professional skills and sell them to the best bidder.
staff
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The recommended salary scale for bureaux managers is pegged to local authority rates for professional staff .
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A professional staff of approximately 15 persons assists the Commissioners in their work.
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We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff , for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
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Also, the number of professional staff as opposed to number crunchers, has increased.
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Moreover, management issues do arise naturally when clinicians work together in teams, perhaps with nurses and other professional staff .
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Telephonists, receptionists, porters as well as professional staff are the people who create the public image of the local service.
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The patient should be told of the mode of address used in that particular hospital for professional staff .
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He disclosed that the crisis in the inspectorate had led to 32 vacancies in a professional staff of 135 in October.
standard
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Being capable of risking showing one's own personal vulnerability while still maintaining professional standards .
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Instead of becoming a unified political force dedicated to raising professional standards , black deejays remained unorganized and unfocused.
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This reflects the Society's function to monitor and maintain the highest professional standards .
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Such a practice would tend to promote suitable professional standards and reduce the chances of miscarriage of justice.
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Expertise was dissipated, professional standards dropped.
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In this way the audit regime has the positive effect of improving professional standards .
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So also should steps be taken to ensure that the professional standards of members and employees are maintained.
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Locally it needs to be done to as near a professional standard as possible.
training
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This trend has been accompanied by improved professional training and a significant rise in the numbers holding professional qualifications.
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There is going to be a professional training day for staff tomorrow so there will be no school again.
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Editor, - Renewed interest in the activities and professional training of counsellors in general practice is welcome.
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I sometimes think that the principal function of professional training in education is to inoculate teachers against books on education.
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The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training .
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Since 1980 professional training courses have proliferated and many can be found in and around London.
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There are a number of print options which complete this professional training aid fit for any professional or amateur team.
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Improving the quality of professional training and decision making might be a more cost-effective solution to the problem of supply-led services.
woman
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The number one cause is stress, which particularly affects the professional woman - often in her mid 20s to late 30s.
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Could I be content to be an exception, one among a small group of professional women who were treated with deference?
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A mature spinster, a professional woman , might.
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These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
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As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
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Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
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It was true that she was an accomplished professional woman in her own right.
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Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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professional basketball games
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Professional basketball players can earn huge sums of money.
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a professional football player
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a professional singer
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He was a keen amateur photographer for many years before he turned professional .
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I was impressed with William's professional manner on the phone.
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Lawyers have their own professional association, which operates a strict code of conduct.
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None of the applicants have any professional job experience.
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the glamorous world of professional skating
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The RSA course in teaching is a recognized professional qualification.
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These glossy brochures look very professional .
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You are advised to seek professional legal advice if in any doubt about the contract details.
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You should speak to a lawyer for a professional opinion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a class, professional golfers are swell well-scrubbed chaps and chaplets, infinitely preferable to professional wrestlers or professional loan sharks.
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By this time Amelia had obtained a transport license, the mark of a professional pilot.
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Despite claims of more health professional access to the Internet, this is not the same as use.
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Full time welfare officers represent individuals at pension tribunals, and are able to offer professional advice on legal matters and housing.
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In the meantime, he says, Elizabeth would benefit from detailed professional financial planning and investment advice.
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Q: Do you have any advice for those want to become a professional singer?
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The professional role has been minimal, and, where it has been relevant has been facilitative rather than directive or initiating.
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The persistent association of Kohlberg's professional prestige with Gilligan's work is an interesting current example.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fellow
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We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments in the papers.
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I wondered to what extent Fordham thought that his own response to this scrutiny was shared by his fellow professionals .
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Hanley's fitness, strength and dedication to the sport compel admiration even among his fellow professionals .
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These people concentrated most of their attention on Molland, a fellow professional who talked the same language.
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He continued to win the highest show ring awards and was honoured by his fellow professionals with several testimonials.
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The adjustment needed is towards a partnership of fellow professionals rather than a hierarchy of expert superordinates and inexpert subordinates.
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Hutton's predominantly with fellow professionals in other fields who just wanted the best and swiftest way through.
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Some of his fellow professionals were equally dubious.
medical
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The medical professionals say the new system has been very beneficial to patients.
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If illness or injury strikes, medical professionals are normally close by, ready to ease pain and begin treatment.
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Complete reliance upon medical professionals can therefore be dangerous.
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Cardiologists and other medical professionals have also formed surfing groups.
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However, questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task, given their present high social status.
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Unlike many medical professionals , they share the ideological and social world of the people they treat.
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The medical professional is in an overwhelmingly powerful position.
public
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The arrangements should involve and be prepared in consultation with senior management, engineers, public relations professionals and others as appropriate.
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It should be anticipated that eventually the best qualified and experienced public service professionals will opt for some other line of work.
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However, to public and professionals alike many old buildings are still regarded as representing little more than four external walls.
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Courts are filled with white-collar cases as our public servants and professionals are caught with their hands in the public till.
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Among virtually all public health professionals , Duesberg's and Rasnick's views are seen as discredited.
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Like public bureaucracies, professionals are also reluctant to impose their values by telling clients how to behave.
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In the future, job opportunities for public relations professionals will increase.
young
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All her old friends were young professionals with incomes.
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And young professionals , people like me, were not vastly far ahead of them.
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For example, a young professional receives a significant increase in his annual salary in October.
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It also might challenge and invite smart graduate students and other young professionals to choose public service over a corporate career.
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Jewel uses two young professionals and two dancers connected to the youth theatre.
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In Florida the young professionals were always entertaining their parents.
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The value covers the 22 first team squad members and 15 young professionals .
■ NOUN
golf
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He was, as golf professionals had been for a hundred years, a serf.
health
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He is not an engineer, a sanitation expert or a health professional .
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A cavalier unconcern about such consequences is too often the response of powerful mental health professionals who create categories of abnormality.
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Clearly this method disposes the health professionals toward feeling that they have helped architect the final programme.
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All this adds up to a full-scale revolt against status quo medicine by the largest group of health professionals .
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The theoretical and methodological developments to pain evaluation by both health professionals and patients will be applied in a hospital Pain Clinic.
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Although subtle, this shift demonstrates what health professionals see as a change in priority.
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In conclusion, deficiencies have been found in monitoring adults with severe physical disability whose sole regular contacts are health professionals .
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A current example of Doublethink about normality is the way many mental health professionals classify behavior in old people.
■ VERB
train
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The company has trained human resource professionals on staff who interview the former employers.
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She also said that HMOs are increasingly training health professionals through their own residency programs, as well as using teaching hospitals.
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One is expected to become, at state expense, a trained professional dedicated to elevating himself and his community.
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Many educators believe that because they are trained professionals , they should decide what kinds of information are useful to the public.
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But, do we excommunicate trained professionals , quality personnel, because of it?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Professionals were first allowed to compete in the Olympics in 1992.
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Electrical repairs should be left to a professional .
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Most athletes these days are highly-trained professionals, who spend their whole time practising or competing.
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Mr. Soloff was a true professional in the field of insurance.
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The play is performed by 50 local actors led by four professionals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Firstly, professionals make important contributions to the well-being of society as a whole.
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It is a tribute to the hard work of soft ware professionals that large-scale disruption was avoided.
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It is noteworthy that newly amended s.62 permits, interalia, market professionals to sue for insider dealing violations.
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It raises problems to do with the role and objectives of the professionals engaged in such work.
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Many parents become very confused by the range of professionals that they see and will call everyone doctor.
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This is because short professionals tend to concentrate their firepower.
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This new professional will need to be much more familiar with statistics in order to choose and evaluate training and testing situations.