verb
- Become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood.
- synonyms: professionalize
- Make professional or give a professional character to.
- usage: "Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs"
- synonyms: professionalize
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