Definition of "professionalization" []

• The act or process of professionalizing. (noun)

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• "This assumption has it backwards, because mass professionalization is an oxymoron; a professional class implies a minority of members."
• "I’d like to second Jim (#43) and say that over-professionalization is an enormous problem."
• "Yet professionalization is a pyrrhic victory: We’ve won the battle but lost the war."