Hand and Professional

Hand

Hand noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.

Usage example: once she got her own place, the young woman showed that she was quite a hand at interior decoration

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Professional and hand are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Professional" instead a noun "Hand".

Nearby Words: handle, handy, handed, handful, handhold

Professional noun - A person engaged in one of the learned professions.

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Hand and professional are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hand" instead a noun "Professional".

old	old hand	old professional
actual	actual hand	actual professional
real	real hand	real professional
remaining	remaining hand	remaining professional
Other adjectives: last, robotic.

A professional is also trained to hold a handgun in one hand when his other hand is holding something else, such as a flashlight.

Source: Firing One-Handed
These days, most college refs and all professional-football refs will use a wireless microphone to announce the fouls over the stadium PA, but they'll still give the hand signals as well.

Source: Hand Signals
The Big Four play this straight in that they're all elite soldiers, one of them having been a successful professional boxer between leaving the military and joining Danya's organisation, and Badass Bookworm Jim Greynolds is the only one of them who isn't more or less a master of hand to hand combat.

Source: Authority Equals Asskicking

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