professionals
- 1Plural of professional.
Tax professionals are especially busy in the weeks before the filing deadline.
The conference brought together professionals from law, finance, and medicine.
Note
A regular plural in -s that brings every sense of the singular along with it. Usually it names people in a profession, or experts, and it pairs naturally with a field: tax professionals, medical professionals. Because the singular also works as a euphemism for a prostitute, a field-free "professionals" in the wrong context can carry that hint, so naming the field keeps it clear. Sociologists also use it for one of Horowitz's four categories.
professionals is a form of professional
professional, noun: A person who belongs to a profession, typically one requiring advanced training and qualification. Full entry
- Forms
- professionalprofessionals plural
- Spelling
- professional → professionals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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