professional association

A professional association is an organized group of individuals in the same occupation or field that advances shared professional interests through networking, standards, advocacy, and continuing education.

Aliases (37)

• standards organization ×38
• professional American football team ×36
• professional organization ×30
• professional society ×27
• trade association ×20
• professional body ×16
• professional division ×16
• professional association section ×12
• professional medical association ×6
• IEEE society ×5
• bar association ×5
• professional legal organization ×4
• engineering organization ×3
• membership association ×2
• professional engineering institution ×2
• professional guild ×2
• professional membership organisation ×2
• professional network ×2
• IEEE organizational unit ×1
• bar association federation ×1
• branch of the American Bar Association ×1
• executive association ×1
• legal professional organization ×1
• medical association ×1
• member services organization ×1
• professional association chapter network ×1
• professional association network ×1
• professional association of architects ×1
• professional community ×1
• professional corps ×1
• professional honorary organization ×1
• professional institution ×1
• professional organization body ×1
• professional scholarly organization ×1
• professional writers organization ×1
• voluntary bar association ×1
• young professional auxiliary organization ×1

Instances (391)

• Indianapolis Colts ("professional American football team")
• American Medical Association
• Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne ("professional association of architects")
• United States Foreign Service ("professional corps")
• Pittsburgh Steelers ("professional American football team")
• Internet Engineering Task Force ("standards organization")
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Law Student Division ("branch of the American Bar Association")
• Recording Academy ("professional organization")
• American Astronomical Society ("professional society")
• Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration ("professional society")
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• Seismological Society of America
• FED ("professional division")
• EMD ("professional division")
• Baltimore Ravens ("professional American football team")
• Guild of Saint Luke (Delft)
• NAPA
• ASM ("professional organization")
• ACS
• American Institute of Physics
• Division of Medicinal Chemistry ("professional division")
• Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering ("professional division")
• American Anthropological Association
• Dallas Cowboys ("professional American football team")
• SIGPLAN ("professional organization")
• SIGCHI
• SIGMOD
• SIGCOMM
• SIGIR
• SIGOPS
• SIGKDD
• ACM SIGSPATIAL
• Association of University Presses
• SIGSOFT
• ACM SIGGRAPH
• Directors Guild of America
• American Association of Physics Teachers
• SIGCSE
• ACM SIGMETRICS
• ACM SIGSAC
• College Art Association
• Print Council of America ("professional organization")
• INFORMS ("professional society")
• American Mathematical Society
• New England Patriots ("professional American football team")
• Society of Petroleum Engineers
• Division of Chemical Education ("professional division")
• American Society for Cell Biology
• American Association for Cancer Research
• National Institute of Standards and Technology ("standards organization")
• Institution of Engineering and Technology ("professional engineering institution")
• Geological Society of London
• American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business ("membership association")
• National Foreign Trade Council ("trade association")
• American Public Health Association
• Association of MBAs
• IEEE Power & Energy Society ("professional society")
• Kansas City Chiefs ("professional American football team")
• National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
• Inns of Court
• Bar Council of England and Wales ("professional body")
• HMC
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers ("professional American football team")
• Jacksonville Jaguars ("professional American football team")
• NAM
• Middle Temple
• American Bar Association ("voluntary bar association")
• Association of Zoos and Aquariums
• Arizona Cardinals ("professional American football team")
• Diplomatic Service ("professional body")
• WECA ("trade association")
• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
• Los Angeles Rams ("professional American football team")
• Los Angeles Chargers ("professional American football team")
• Washington Commanders ("professional American football team")
• Baseball Writers' Association of America
• Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons ("professional guild")
• Heat Transfer Division ("professional division")
• Aerospace Division ("professional division")
• Engineering Management Division ("professional division")
• JFBA ("bar association")
• International Bar Association ("bar association federation")
• LAWASIA
• ARIB ("standards organization")
• TTC ("standards organization")
• CCSA ("standards organization")
• ATIS ("standards organization")
• TTA ("standards organization")
• ETSI ("standards organization")
• DNP ("professional organization")
• National Academy of Public Administration
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ("professional honorary organization")
• American Society for Microbiology
• American Chemical Society
• National Association of Securities Dealers ("trade association")
• Unicode Consortium ("standards organization")
• Special Interest Groups ("professional community")
• ECMA International ("standards organization")
• Houston Oilers ("professional American football team")
• The Broadway League ("trade association")
• American Political Science Association
• IEEE Standards Association ("standards organization")
• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society ("professional society")
• IEEE Member and Geographic Activities ("IEEE organizational unit")
• IEEE Signal Processing Society ("professional society")
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society ("professional society")
• IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society ("professional society")
• IEEE Electron Devices Society ("professional society")
• IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society ("professional society")
• International Telecommunication Union ("standards organization")
• ASA
• American College of Radiology ("medical association")
• SoR ("professional organization")
• AVS ("professional society")
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• ACA
• Cincinnati Bengals ("professional American football team")
• Cleveland Browns ("professional American football team")
• Houston Texans ("professional American football team")
• AIST
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• Tennessee Titans ("professional American football team")
• Chicago Bears ("professional American football team")
• American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers ("professional society")
• Denver Broncos ("professional American football team")
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing ("professional body")
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence ("professional organization")
• Wi‑Fi Alliance ("trade association")
• Las Vegas Raiders ("professional American football team")
• AP-S ("professional society")
• Lincoln's Inn
• ASME International Gas Turbine Institute ("professional division")
• IEEE Information Theory Society ("professional society")
• DPS ("professional organization")
• King's Inns ("professional body")
• Association of American Railroads ("trade association")
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("engineering organization")
• American College of Physicians ("professional medical association")
• American Society for Clinical Investigation
• AMBA
• Association of American Physicians
• Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
• Inner Temple
• San Francisco 49ers ("professional American football team")
• Association of American Law Schools
• Commonwealth legal professional bodies ("professional association network")
• IAB ("standards organization")
• Green Bay Packers ("professional American football team")
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ("standards organization")
• National Association of Basketball Coaches
• American Astronomical Society Committee on Diversity and Inclusion ("professional body")
• Seattle Seahawks ("professional American football team")
• New Orleans Saints ("professional American football team")
• Massachusetts Bar ("bar association")
• PCI Security Standards Council ("standards organization")
• American Physical Society
• ESA
• Minnesota Vikings ("professional American football team")
• American Federation of Teachers
• Detroit Lions ("professional American football team")
• Atlanta Falcons ("professional American football team")
• American National Standards Institute ("standards organization")
• INCITS ("standards organization")
• Carolina Panthers ("professional American football team")
• ATAS
• DDA ("professional division")
• Japan Federation of Bar Associations ("bar association")
• Sid Cassel ("professional organization")
• 3rd Generation Partnership Project ("standards organization")
• World Wide Web Consortium ("standards organization")
• Power.org ("standards organization")
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
• Association for Iron & Steel Technology
• ASME
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society ("professional society")
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society ("professional society")
• Sullivan family ("professional American football team")
• AAP ("professional medical association")
• Committee on Infectious Diseases ("professional body")
• Committee on Adolescence ("professional body")
• Committee on Fetus and Newborn ("professional body")
• Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine ("professional body")
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ("professional medical association")
• American Academy of Family Physicians ("professional medical association")
• ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ("standards organization")
• Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ("professional membership organisation")
• IEEE Photonics Society ("professional society")
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ("professional membership organisation")
• The American Planning Association ("professional organization")
• The American Society of Landscape Architects
• DFD ("professional organization")
• Optical Society of America ("professional society")
• Optica
• Acoustical Society of America ("professional organization")
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine
• American Crystallographic Association
• Society of Rheology ("professional society")
• AVS Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing ("professional society")
• American Geophysical Union
• RSJ ("professional society")
• New York Giants ("professional American football team")
• Section of Taxation ("professional association section")
• Section of Intellectual Property Law ("professional association section")
• Robotics Society of Japan ("professional organization")
• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ("standards organization")
• NAICU ("trade association")
• Professional Hockey Writers Association ("professional organization")
• EPCglobal ("standards organization")
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association ("professional writers organization")
• Verband Botanischer Gärten e.V. ("professional organization")
• AAS ("professional organization")
• Division for Planetary Sciences ("professional organization")
• Solar Physics Division ("professional organization")
• Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
• Business Roundtable ("trade association")
• Shreveport Steamer ("professional American football team")
• Government Communications Service ("professional body")
• American School Counselor Association
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Comité Champagne ("trade association")
• Texas A&M Alumni network ("professional network")
• American Federation of Information Processing Societies
• China Sculpture Institute ("professional organization")
• IEEE Industry Applications Society ("professional society")
• American Association of Engineering Societies ("engineering organization")
• AMA
• Philadelphia Eagles ("professional American football team")
• Internet Society
• ACM Professional Chapters ("professional association chapter network")
• AEA
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Royal Aeronautical Society ("professional institution")
• American Alliance of Museums
• Washington State Bar
• American Society of Magazine Editors
• LAD ("professional division")
• Canadian Bar Association (academic links) ("professional legal organization")
• ACS ("professional medical association")
• IANA ("standards organization")
• Ecological Society of America
• Institute of Radio Engineers
• International Bartenders Association
• ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division ("professional division")
• Internet Activities Board ("standards organization")
• Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association ("bar association")
• ASTM International ("standards organization")
• ANSI ("standards organization")
• IEEE Radar Systems Panel ("professional organization body")
• IEEE Control Systems Society ("professional society")
• Polish Chemical Society
• National Urban League Young Professionals ("young professional auxiliary organization")
• IFIP
• Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
• USB Implementers Forum ("standards organization")
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ("professional society")
• International Commission of Jurists ("legal professional organization")
• ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound ("professional body")
• GCC Standardization Organization ("standards organization")
• Java Community Process ("standards organization")
• Royal Geographical Society ("professional body")
• SSA
• Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences ("professional organization")
• Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia
• New York State Bar
• Art Workers Guild ("professional guild")
• Syd Cassyd
• MEDI (ACS MEDI Division) ("professional organization")
• PMSE ("professional division")
• Society for Cultural Anthropology
• Biological Anthropology Section ("professional association section")
• Society for Visual Anthropology
• Association for Black Anthropologists
• Society for the Anthropology of Religion ("professional association section")
• Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
• Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
• Society for the Anthropology of Reproduction ("professional association section")
• Society for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing ("professional association section")
• American Economic Association
• Society for Medical Anthropology
• Society for Linguistic Anthropology
• Society for the Anthropology of Work ("professional association section")
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society ("professional society")
• National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
• Council for German Orthography ("standards organization")
• IEEE Communications Society ("professional society")
• Society for Psychological Anthropology
• Council on Anthropology and Education ("professional association section")
• Society for the Anthropology of North America
• Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology ("professional association section")
• Institution of Civil Engineers
• Association for Feminist Anthropology ("professional organization")
• Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers ("professional engineering institution")
• Deutscher Werkbund ("professional organization")
• Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology ("professional scholarly organization")
• European Molecular Biology Organization
• Society for Economic Anthropology
• American Library Association
• New York Jets ("professional American football team")
• Royal Astronomical Society ("professional body")
• Boston Architectural Club
• AIP ("professional organization")
• Association of Art Museum Directors
• Toronto Association of Brokers
• Commonwealth Electoral Network
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• The Business Council ("executive association")
• American Philosophical Association
• Buffalo Bills ("professional American football team")
• American Public Gardens Association
• International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine ("professional organization")
• Council of Medical Specialty Societies
• Japan Institute of Architects
• DOC ("professional organization")
• COLL ("professional division")
• NUCL ("professional division")
• GEOC ("professional division")
• Mathematical Association of America ("professional society")
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• DGA
• Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ("trade association")
• Detroit Auto Dealers Association ("trade association")
• American Insurance Association ("trade association")
• National Federation of Independent Business ("trade association")
• National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ("professional organization")
• German Physical Society
• ABA
• Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar ("professional association section")
• Business Law Section ("professional legal organization")
• Young Lawyers Division ("professional legal organization")
• Leiden painters’ guild
• WHATWG ("standards organization")
• CAA ("professional organization")
• AAPT ("professional organization")
• International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities ("standards organization")
• American Society for Engineering Education
• White House Correspondents' Association
• National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities ("trade association")
• Miami Dolphins ("professional American football team")
• American Social Science Association
• CHED ("professional organization")
• International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
• Société des Réalisateurs de Films
• American College of Surgeons
• San Diego Fleet ("professional American football team")
• Mississippi State Medical Association ("professional medical association")
• National Academy of Engineering ("engineering organization")
• International DOI Foundation ("standards organization")
• International Publishers Association ("trade association")
• American Institute of Architects
• Public Health Nursing Section ("professional association section")
• Health Education and Health Promotion Section ("professional association section")
• EAIE
• Council of Independent Colleges ("membership association")
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• American Psychological Association
• American Association of University Professors
• Country Music Association ("trade association")
• Culinary Institute of America alumni network ("professional network")
• College of Policing ("professional body")
• International Air Transport Association ("trade association")
• European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
• EATCS
• National Union of Journalists
• News Media Association ("trade association")
• British Phonographic Industry ("trade association")
• International Association for Cryptologic Research