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professionalisation

professionalisation is the alternative spelling of professionalization.

Meaning of professionalization

Noun

professionalization (countable and uncountable, plural professionalizations)

  1. The act or process of professionalizing, or becoming professional.
    • Their relative success formalized the idea of law enforcement for payment, and helped accelerate the professionalization of policing.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 64

Forms of professionalisation

pluralprofessionalisations

Origin of professionalisation

From professional + -isation.

Questions about professionalisation

What is professionalisation the alternative spelling of?
Professionalisation is the alternative spelling of professionalization.

Words near professionalisation in the dictionary

  1. professional victims
  2. professional wrestler
  3. professional wrestlers
  4. professional wrestling
  5. professionalese
  6. professionalisation
  7. professionalisations
  8. professionalise
  9. professionalised
  10. professionalises
  11. professionalish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: professionalisation (page history and authors); professionalization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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