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Definition: Professional Association |
Professional AssociationNoun1. An association of practitioners of a given profession. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Business | An organisation of persons in a particular occupation to protect and promote their common interests ; a trade union which organizes on the principle of including all workers from one industry, regardless of their craft or whether they are skilled or unskilled. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Professional Association |
| Specialty definitions using "professional association": AM-FM ♦ Black Data Processing Associates. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Neither the Government nor the relevant professional association regulates Australian dental fees. Dental fees are considered "ancillary benefits" by private health insurance funds (along with optical, physiotherapy and other allied health services). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), the professional association of all Nigerian journalists, immediately criticized it as "an undisguised instrument of censorship and an unacceptable interference with the freedom of the press." Decree 60 attempted to put control of the practice of journalism into the hands of a body of journalists who were appointed by and received payment from the Government. (references) |
Guatemala | On November 30, Congress passed a bill that would require every working journalist to hold a journalism degree, belong to a professional association, and receive a government license. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | The Government has arbitrarily denied the registration application of an independent professional association of private radio and television broadcasters at least seven times reportedly for the association's failure to elect the Government candidate as chairman. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | The Professional Association for the Registrars and Custodians (PARD) was established in July 1996, beginning as an association of registrars only. (references) |
Spain | In some professional services the approved seal of the professional association or bar is required. (references) | |
Human Rights | Togo | Judges who belong to the pro-Eyadema Professional Association of Togo Magistrates (APMT) reportedly receive the most prestigious assignments, while judges who advocated an independent judiciary and belong to the National Association of Magistrates (ANM) were marginalized. (references) |
Worker Rights | Andorra | For example, the police union functions more as a professional association than as a union. (references) |
Syria | In 1980 the security forces arrested many union and professional association officials who planned a national strike. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
professional association | 114 |
professional association of georgia educator | 26 |
international fitness professional association | 11 |
human resource professional association | 8 |
professional association of resume writer | 7 |
professional association management | 5 |
national trade and professional association | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "professional association"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | brancheforening (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vakorganisatie (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union), beroepsvereniging voor vrije beroepen (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union), beroepsvereniging (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union), beroepsorganisatie voor vrije beroepen (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union), beroepsorganisatie (craft union, industrial union, occupational union, social-professional organization, trade-association, vertical union), bedrijfsorganisatie (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union), bedrijfsgroepering (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ammattijärjestö (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | union professionnelle, syndicat professionnel, chambre syndicale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | kammer (bolt, box room, cell, chamber, dark-room, house, room, small room, store, ventricle), Fachverband (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union), Berufsverband (industrial union, occupational union, social-professional organization, trade-association, vertical union), Berufsgenossenschaft (trade association). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | επαγγελματικός σύλλογος (group of occupations, industrial union, occupational group, trade-association, vertical union), επαγγελματικό επιμελητήριο (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union), επαγγελματική ένωση (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | sindacato professionale (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofessionalpray associationay grémio (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union). (various references) yrkesförbund (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union), branschorganisation (industrial union, trade-association, vertical union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-f-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-o-o-p-r-s-s-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: professionalisations. | |
-4 letters: professionalisation. | |
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