professionalizev.

1856 J. Grote in Cambr. Ess. 89 The mere professionalizing the education will not better the matter.

1886 Bicycling News 22 Jan. 290/1 We do not think that any number of the present offenders will professionalise themselves at once.

1890 Illustr. London 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.

1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 394/2 We are..standardizing parochial, synodical and diocesan organization, professionalizing parochial service, and encouraging a numberless throng of would-be workers to learn the professional patter of the particular department in which they mean to offer their services.

1954 Encounter June 13/1 The effort to ‘professionalise’ work has become the major means of giving one's job a badge of honorific quality.

1989 Times 16 Sept. 45 They contravene every rule of the amateur code and anyone playing with or against these players is liable to professionalize themselves under the strict rules of rugby union.

2002 P. Augar & J. Palmer Rise Player Manager v. 100 I then followed a strategy to put some structure into my own team and professionalize the management of the firm.

1890 Cent. Dict. Professionalize, to become professional; behave or proceed in a professional manner.

1969 Computers & Humanities 4 95 It would be especially inappropriate in this context to get into the question of whether scholar/teachers should unionize or professionalize.

1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies iii. 99 Matthew, I should add, was my first student before he professionalized.