professionalizingn.
/prəˈfɛʃn̩əlʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /prəˈfɛʃənlˌaɪzɪŋ/, /proʊˈfɛʃənlˌaɪzɪŋ/; see also professionalize v. The action of professionalize v.; the process of making professional (in various senses).
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > professional quality > rendering professional
professionalizing1899
professionalization1901
1899 Speaker 2 Sept. 224/2 It will be interesting to see if its popularity will survive the professionalising of warfare.
1907 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 411 The professionalising of religion.
1972 Science 12 May 645/1 The professionalizing of forestry created a community of interest between private and public policy makers.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Feb. 39/1 Roche is illuminating..about the professionalizing of the career of engineer in France.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
professionalizingadj.
/prəˈfɛʃn̩əlʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /prəˈfɛʃənlˌaɪzɪŋ/, /proʊˈfɛʃənlˌaɪzɪŋ/; see also professionalize v. That professionalizes; that makes or becomes professional.
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1957 Times 26 Nov. 11/5 This belief helps to explain his tendency to see the history of scholarship as a perennial war between ‘professionalizing’ or ‘Germanizing’ antiquarians and lively and entertaining writers like himself.
1977 R. 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.
2001 Isis 92 700 The rapidly professionalizing field of social work.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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