professionalize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of professionalize
First recorded in 1855–60; professional + -ize
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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
But he crafted a national strategy to strengthen and professionalize the military, restore the presence and authority of the state across the country, and deliver what he called “democratic security.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
The reforms were cast as a way to help further professionalize women’s soccer in the country and promote equal pay.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
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
But as we round the first corner, almost all of the exhibits are the work of amateurs, conscripted from civilian life and professionalized into name, rank and number.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
Among the offices housed in the East Wing is the Office of the First Lady, first professionalized by Eleanor Roosevelt during her husband’s administration.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
“These are highly professionalized individuals with a lot of experience in bargaining and conflict negotiation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
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
Delo said the funding would allow Reform to spend £1 million a month professionalizing the party ahead of the 2029 election.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Their job satisfaction worries me, even as I’m encouraged by how steadily the field is professionalizing.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 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
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
Irrespective of the professionalizing of philosophy, the ideas philosophers discuss are still those in which Western civilization has been bred.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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