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professionalize

[pruh-fesh-uh-nl-ahyz] / prəˈfɛʃ ə nlˌaɪz /
VERB
increase the required knowledge and skill for an occupation's workers
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Harfuch "sought to professionalize, to modernize the intelligence agency to go after crimes," said Gerardo Rodriguez, an academic expert in national security who met Harfuch in 2018.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

One of the efforts to professionalize the process is ICEList, a web database created by Dominick Skinner, an Irish activist based in the Netherlands.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026

They hired Persy’s former babysitter, a graphic designer, to professionalize the designs and paid China-based Panda Games to manufacture the game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

There’s also a movement to professionalize the field of animal-assisted therapy and ensure the animals involved are treated in a safe and ethical manner.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024

Shawn wanted to professionalize the operation, to invest the profits from the Malad job in new equipment; Dad wanted things to stay the same.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

As U.S. foreign policy became more professionalized, some historians have argued, the role of overseeing and executing it became a better fit for capable administrators than aspiring presidents.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Zahn wanted to convey the pressure college coaches face in the increasingly professionalized world of college football.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

“These are highly professionalized individuals with a lot of experience in bargaining and conflict negotiation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

Abroad, the Women’s Super League did not become fully professionalized until 2018.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Could I run some sort of after-school program, a professionalized version of what I’d done for Czerny at Princeton?

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Backers, including venture capital investors and the YouTube star MrBeast, are now aiming to cash in by professionalizing the strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

But experts question whether her strategies — expanding community policing and professionalizing cops — would transfer to a national level.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

At what point does professionalizing our personal lives leech them of any spirit or spontaneity?

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

In the seventeenth century, as its enemies grew stronger, the empire became more inward-looking, focusing less on external expansion and more on resolving domestic affairs, professionalizing its bureaucracy, and conducting internal reforms.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

In 1996, the government focused its attention on implementing an ambitious economic reform program and professionalizing its parliament.

From The 1999 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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