professional capacity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprofessionalandcapacity
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professional
adjective
uk/prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl/us/prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl/
relating to work that needs special training ...
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capacity
noun
uk/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/us/kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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(Definition ofprofessionalandcapacityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But the value of singing in other than a purelyprofessionalcapacitywas there to be appealed to.
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In addition, they may be employed in the civil service or some otherprofessionalcapacity, and often engage in small-scale trading or retailing.
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He did not come in anyprofessionalcapacity.
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Would he not, in hisprofessionalcapacity, attack it?
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Clause 28(1)(b) contains the provision that the trustee "is acting in aprofessionalcapacity".
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There are, of course, also engineering and science graduates and qualified accountants employed in aprofessionalcapacity.
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The suggestion has been made that the school board would somehow or other overrule the teachers in their technical andprofessionalcapacityas teachers.
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Are they understandable to the man in the street or the person who has to operate them in whateverprofessionalcapacityhe may find himself?
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Visits to inmates by journalists or authors in theirprofessionalcapacityare generally not allowed.
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The lady asked for a small allowance in order that she might save time in the journeys she had to take in herprofessionalcapacity.
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I say that with some feeling as one who has had a fair amount of contact with the law in myprofessionalcapacity.
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Suppose these distressed areas came to him in hisprofessionalcapacityand asked him to advise them upon the equity of their case.
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There was a draft convention concerning the minimum requirements andprofessionalcapacityfor masters and officers on board merchant ships.
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There seems to be no limit to the matters about which a person acting in aprofessionalcapacityis debarred from speaking.
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I would underline the words "in aprofessionalcapacity".
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That is a natural thing for them to do in theirprofessionalcapacity.
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I understand that was in hisprofessionalcapacity, and had nothing to do with his political opinions.
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It seems to me that that goes pastprofessionalcapacity.
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Generally speaking, people acting in aprofessionalcapacityhave not come from the common people.
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