Expert vs. Professional

Expertadjective

Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.

Expertadjective

Characteristic of an expert.

Expertnoun

A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.

Expertnoun

(chess) A player ranking just below master.

Expertadjective

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

Expertnoun

An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

Expertnoun

A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

Expertnoun

A sworn appraiser.

Expertverb

To experience.

Expertnoun

a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

Expertadjective

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;

Expert

An expert is somebody who has a broad and deep competence in terms of knowledge, skill and experience through practice and education in a particular field. Informally, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.

Professionalnoun

A person who belongs to a profession

Professionalnoun

A person who earns their living from a specified activity

Professionalnoun

A reputation known by name

Professionalnoun

An expert.

Professionaladjective

Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

Professionaladjective

That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.

Professionaladjective

(by extension) Expert.

Professionaladjective

Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.

Professionaladjective

Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; - opposed to amateur.

Professionalnoun

A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

Professionalnoun

a person engaged in one of the learned professions

Professionalnoun

an athlete who plays for pay

Professionalnoun

an authority qualified to teach apprentices

Professionaladjective

engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood;

Professionaladjective

of or relating to or suitable as a profession;

Professionaladjective

characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession;

Professionaladjective

of or relating to a profession;

Professionaladjective

engaged in by members of a profession;

Professional

A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns a living from a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.