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proˈfessionalize, v. [f. as prec. + -ize.] 1. trans. To render or make professional.
1856J. Grote in Cambr. Ess. 89 The mere professionalizing the education will not better the matter. 1886Bicycling News 22 Jan. 290/1 We do not think that any number of the present offenders will professionalise them⁓selves at once. 1890Illustr. Lond. News 7 June 728/2 Perhaps it is the fate of every form of recreation that it should become more or less ‘professionalised’—if I may coin a word—and degraded from its original pure health⁓giving aim. 1947Mind LVI. 393 In the third period..philosophy has been professionalized. 1954[see lubritorium]. 1974Nature 11 Jan. 122/3 Steeds ‘professionalises’ the subject so that a research student with the aid of this book should be able to make intelligent use of anisotropic elasticity. 2. intr. To become professional; to proceed in a professional manner.
1890in Cent. Dict. Hence proˈfessionalized ppl. a., proˈfessionalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also proˌfessionaliˈzation, the action of making or fact of becoming professionalized.
1899Speaker 2 Sept. 224/2 It will be interesting to see if its popularity will survive the professionalising of warfare. 1901Sat. Rev. 24 Aug. 233/1 Batting has..greatly risen..due in part to..the process which we may perhaps be allowed to call by the clumsy name of professionalisation. 1907Edin. Rev. Oct. 411 The professionalising of religion. 1923G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite (ed. 4) 152 Wagner was not only the highly professionalized royal conductor of Dresden..: he was also the author of the saying that music is kept alive..on the cottage piano of the amateur. 1958Oxford Mag. 20 Feb. 290/1 The increased professionalisation of sport. 1959B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Path. ix. 287 The history of this rapid growth of professionalization, and of the splintering of generalized welfare work into numerous highly specialized professions, is an interesting story. 1969H. Perkin Key Profession i. 20 The professionalization of university teaching..turned even more on the reform of Oxford and Cambridge. 1972Science 12 May 645/1 The professionalizing of forestry created a community of interest between private and public policy makers. 1973L. Holcombe Victorian Ladies at Work i. 19 There was a raising of the status of the workers in teaching and nursing, this ‘professionalization’ being..distinctive..of the period. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xxiii. 341 Language should become a well-established option in Dip. H.E. courses and..institutions selecting for a professionalising year should look upon it as an important qualification for acceptance. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Apr. 38/3 The bar became increasingly professionalized—which meant that lawyers and judges were drawn from higher social classes. 1977R. Holland Self & Social Context ix. 265 The relation between sociology and psychology in the United States and Britain, both as disciplines and as professionalising disciplines. 1979Dædalus Spring 15 They also believe in the ‘professionalization’ of sociology. |