professionalization
- n the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
the professionalization of American sports
the professionalization of warfare
- Also at fault is what LaVoi refers to as "the professionalization of youth sports" parents treating kids like mini-pros by pushing them to engage in highly competitive .
- Amid all the professionalization, the few remaining amateurs stand two miles up the West Side Highway.
- Bogle wasn't the only observer who thought the professionalization of the investment business would wean markets from manias and panics.