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Examples of professionalize in a Sentence
The country is professionalizing the military.
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Russia questioned why the designation is needed as part of a resolution that is supposed to be aimed at assisting the Haitian government with professionalizing its national police, monitoring human rights and strengthening its justice system.
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Librarians and architects were already at odds in the late nineteenth century, when librarianship and architectural practice were being professionalized.
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But Krafcik, who joined Waymo in 2015, professionalized and sped up the research-heavy effort.
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Sandberg brought her experience in building Google’s enormously successful ad platforms to Facebook, helping to monetize the nascent company, grow it, and professionalize it.
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Forensic science — the kind that traces the grooves in bullets, the mark of a shoe, or the scrape of a tool — emerged in the early 20th century as a way to professionalize police work.
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The act would both professionalize the medical practice and would allow the surgery schools to use and dissect the corpses of the poor.
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Once the sport became fully professionalized, players had dramatically more control over their careers.
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As someone who had long created with no expectation of an audience, the path to professionalizing was fraught.
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First Known Use of professionalize
1856
PROFESSIONALIZE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of professionalize for English Language Learners
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: to make (an activity) into a job that requires special education, training, or skill
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