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In the UK the term 'Professional' has two definitions.
1. Learned. Limited to three occupations Law, Human Medicine and Divinity. To be classified as 'learned' the person must possess a doctorate in one of those three disciplines.
2. Rumunerated occupation. The more common definition. It does not infer any superior status, although it benefits from the connotations of the first definition.
Therefore in the UK all dealers are professionals, all hobbyists are amateurs in the 2nd sense.
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