professionalize
Verb
Meaning
make professional or give a professional character to
become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
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Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs
He further noted that his agenda is to professionalize women football in the country besides sourcing for sponsorship to help football clubs.
Army organization was improved, and British consultants were employed to train and professionalize soldiers.
Adding more legitimate slaughter facilities will also help to professionalize the numerous uninspected facilities that exist.
Much of the recruiting for home health aides is done in an ad hoc fashion – companies put up job postings or even hand out fliers – but there are better ways to advertise the availability of such work that can also legitimize and professionalize it.
U.S. Special Operations forces had spent eight months training the 750-member battalion in a bid to professionalize Congo's ragtag military, which has a long history of rights abuses, including raping and killing civilians."