professionally

adv

1. As a professional; for one's paid career.

   “Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.”

2. In a professional manner.

   “You handled that customer's complaint very professionally.”

   “There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.”

   “He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system.”