professionally
English
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From professional + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]professionally (comparative more professionally, superlative most professionally)
- As a professional; for one's paid career.
- Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.
- 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], archived from the original on 26 January 2021:
- 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.
- 2025 October 22, Jim O'Callaghan, quotee, “Second night of unrest in Dublin as protesters target asylum hotel”, in The Guardian[2], sourced from P. A. Media, →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 December 2025:
- He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system.
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[edit]in a professional manner
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