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What is "professionally"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
professionally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
professionally qualified
▪ All our staff are professionally qualified.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
qualified
▪ All defined benefit schemes are subject to regular valuations by professionally qualified actuaries.
trained
▪ Take your time choosing your ring and enjoy the benefit of receiving expert help and advice from the Beaverbrooks professionally trained staff.
▪ Chartered secretaries are the professionally trained administrators and managers, who occupy a variety of senior organisational positions.
▪ It is a confidential service staffed by professionally trained counsellors.
▪ One of its tenets is that only well educated and professionally trained individuals have the competence to work with the mass media.
■ VERB
play
▪ In 1911, after playing professionally for the Southern League side Leyton, he was bought by Sunderland for £1,200.
▪ Answer: Levi has said he plays professionally only so that he can indulge his other interests.
▪ In one way I regret it, which is a reason why I think I should have started playing professionally later on.
train
▪ As actuaries we are professionally trained to make forward projections so we should also look at the future for our own profession.
▪ Although assigned as teachers, only a minority of them had been professionally trained as teachers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a professionally edited video
▪ Schneider has cooked professionally in France and the United States.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After his father died he did a lot of odd jobs, including shining shoes, boxing professionally and preaching.
▪ Again, a professionally drafted clause was held unreasonable.
▪ If Liddy and Leary could wed professionally, so can Falwell and Flynt.
▪ On 30 June 1978 the deceased signed a professionally drawn will.
▪ She responded very professionally and discreetly nodded, so I knew there would be either a discount or a special plate delivered.
▪ The apartments were professionally operated and tended to have higher occupancy rates and rents than the rental market as a whole.
▪ The makeup is more professionally applied.
▪ They were doing a job not totally agreeable to them, but they were doing it professionally.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Professionally

Professionally \Pro*fes"sion*al*ly\, adv. In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.

Wiktionary
professionally

adv. In a professional manner.

WordNet
professionally

adv. in a professional manner; "professionally trained staff"

Usage examples of "professionally".

Does that mean you ran into a homonym professionally, in your preparation of contracts, that brought about unexpected complications?

Donohue was merely professionally interested in the epidemic and so was examining the microbiology involved.

In this case, though, your eagerness helps, since the Moties are directing your efforts quite professionally.

Which extended to being professionally dispassionate towards Henri Sanglier himself.

Sten professionally estimated that there were about a squillion beings about to go at it, tooth, nail, tear gas, and guns.

I suppose, looked on me as his posterity -- as someone who would continue his respectable, professionally competent, unaspiring life.

Not quite two years later, I decided to join professionally with those who were putting Anthroposophy into outer practice.

Lou Calabrese, not Candy Sparks, cheerleading captain and star of every musical Bay Haven Central put on, or Amber Castiglione, homecoming queen and possessor of a professionally done portfolio of modeling headshots.

This is not entirely surprising bearing in mind he has spent the best part of forty years taking drugs professionally.

Martinez called Jukes into his office to give him the news, and the man turned up in Fleet-issued undress, and managed to brace rather professionally in salute.

One is safe, with immediate rewards both monetarily and professionally.

Every potential client had received a professionally done packet touting the exploits of the newest King of Torts.

It is hardly an accident that the vampirish Chillingworth is a doctor, that he is professionally licensed to subject others to his analytic scrutiny.

Claudine found it difficult to define in a single word, which further confused her: irritated her professionally, because professionally she was supposed to be able to analyse attitudes and behaviour and give them a name-tag.

Instant-Replay-Video Scoreboard, disgruntled or professionally suicidal or both, started training his camera on the bedroom windows and routing the resultant multi-limbed coital images up onto the 75-meter Scoreboard screen, etc.