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Noun: professionalisation  pru'fe-shu-nu-lI,zey-shun
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: professionalization)
  1. The process of an activity or occupation becoming more professional, standardized, or carried out by trained specialists
    "The professionalisation of nursing occurred throughout the 20th century";
    - professionalization

Derived forms: professionalisations

Type of: social process

Encyclopedia: Professionalisation