| professional boxing | boxing for money |
| professional wrestling | wrestling for money |
| professional golf | playing golf for money |
| professional football | football played for pay |
| professional baseball | playing baseball for money |
soccer
association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
| professional basketball | playing basketball for money |
| professional tennis | playing tennis for money |
business life
professional life | a career in industrial or commercial or professional activities |
| association | the act of consorting with or joining with others, you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
association
connection
connexion | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination, conditioning is a form of learning by association |
| free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
associationism
association theory | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity |
| association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LTTE
Tamil Tigers
Tigers
World Tamil Association
World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Orange Order
Association of Orangemen | a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland |
Ulster Defence Association
UDA | the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs |
| association | a formal organization of people or groups of people, he joined the Modern Language Association |
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
National Volunteers Association | an all-male organization begun in to foster nationalism in India's Hindus |
Lions Club
International Association of Lions clubs | club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare |
| professional association | an association of practitioners of a given profession |
professional organization
professional organisation | an organization of and for professional people |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
news agency
press agency
wire service
press association
news organization
news organisation | an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically |
National Rifle Association
NRA | a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government |
Federal National Mortgage Association
Fannie Mae
FNMA | a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages |
savings and loan
savings and loan association | a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages |
Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons
AARP | an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens |
| National Association of Realtors | a United States association of real estate agents which follows a strict code of ethics |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN | an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism |
dancer
professional dancer
terpsichorean | a performer who dances professionally |
golf pro
professional golfer | someone who earns a living by playing or teaching golf |
health professional
primary care provider
PCP
health care provider
caregiver | a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability |
| master professional | an authority qualified to teach apprentices |
professional
professional person | a person engaged in one of the learned professions |
| professional pro | an athlete who plays for pay |
tennis pro
professional tennis player | someone who earns a living playing or teaching tennis |
| association | (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding |
| association | a relation resulting from interaction or dependence, flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear, the host is not always injured by association with a parasite |
| professional relation | the relation that exists when one person requests and is granted professional help from a qualified source |
affiliation
association
tie tie-up | a social or business relationship, a valuable financial affiliation, he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team, many close associations with England |
| guilt by association | the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty |
| association | the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination, his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break |
| professional | engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood, the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications, began her professional career after the Olympics, professional theater, professional football, a professional cook, professional actors and athletes |
| professional | characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession, professional conduct, professional ethics, a thoroughly professional performance |
| professional | engaged in by members of a profession, professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching |
| professional | of or relating to a profession, we need professional advice, professional training, professional equipment for his new office |