professionalizationn.
/prəˌfɛʃn̩əlʌɪˈzeɪʃən/, U.S. /prəˌfɛʃənəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /prəˌfɛʃənələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/; see also professionalize v. The action of making or fact of becoming professionalized; the process of professionalizing.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > professional quality > rendering professional
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1901 Sat. 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.
1958 Oxf. Mag. 20 Feb. 290/1 The increased professionalisation of sport.
1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. 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.
1973 L. 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.
1999 Classical Rev. 49 599 Wallace detects evidence for an increasing professionalization and specialization of authors, composers, and artists.
2005 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 38 441 With the move towards academic and institutional professionalization by young lay scientists such as Huxley, clerical scientists began to be marginalized by the scientific community from the 1840s onwards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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