professional worker

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Even in the housing boom year of 2006, while there were about two professional vacancies for every unemployed professional worker, there were more than seven unemployed construction workers for every construction job vacancy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2016

Justine isn't a mere extra pair of hands; she's a trained professional worker.

From The Treasure by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

For instance, the sedentary life of the student or professional worker is abnormal or unnatural, but it need not be unhealthful, if hygienic adaptations are made.

From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus

And the home-maker can put them in quite as well as the professional worker in cement if he sets out to do so, though he may be longer at the work.

From Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover by Rexford, Eben E. (Eben Eugene)

Then the captain turned over in his mind that night's good work with the self-satisfied air of an industrious professional worker.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony