{
  "id": "pro.professional",
  "term": "pro",
  "sense": "professional",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 21,
  "arena": "pro",
  "domain": "pro",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who does work for pay using skill",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "skill.ability",
      "pay.economic",
      "work.effort",
      "payment.economic",
      "people.social",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "skill is applied through use in work, and payment is given in exchange, all situated within a social context of people.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "paid expertise",
      "social role of worker",
      "purposeful application of skill"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Linus Torvalds earned salary from Transmeta while developing the Linux kernel.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Serena Williams won $3.5 million for winning the 2013 French Open tournament.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Brooklyn Bridge maintenance crew received city wages to repair cables in 2022.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "person",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "pro",
    "pros"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete — it implicitly required 'payment.economic', 'people.social', and 'use.application' to define the full concept, which were missing in components. Added them to alig"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pro.professional"
}