Definition of "professionals" []

• Plural form of professional. (noun)

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• "Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/18/09: Mental Health professionals 'letter asks Michelle Obama to investigate diagnostic abuse of veterans yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Mental Health professionals\ 'letter asks Michelle Obama to investigate diagnostic abuse of veterans'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: I recently published an article - Diagnostic abuse of veterans and the dilemmas of health professional ethics - on Army pressures for mental health clinicians to not diagnose post traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] in returning soldiers."
• "Your paper is the first one I've come across that recognises the difference between the requirements of what you call professionals and amateurs."
• "When Ed Rollins persuaded Ross Jr. to go to his father and make the case to keep Hal Riney, the ad man that Perot didn't want, Perot Sr. got mad and said, "There you are carrying water for the Pentagon," That's what he called the professionals that had come."