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profession Definition

pro·fes·sion (prō fes̸h′ən, prə-)

noun

  1. a professing, or declaring; avowal, whether true or pretended a profession of sympathy
    1. the avowal of belief in a religion
    2. a faith or religion professed
    1. a vocation or occupation requiring advanced education and training, and involving intellectual skills, as medicine, law, theology, engineering, teaching, etc.
    2. the body of persons in any such calling or occupation
    3. loosely any occupation
  4. the act or ceremony of taking vows on formally entering a religious order

Etymology: OFr < L professio

profession Idioms

the oldest profession

prostitution

profession Synonyms

profession

n.

  1. A skilled or learned occupation

    calling, business, avocation, vocation, employment, occupation, job, engagement, office, situation, position, lifework, chosen work, billet, role, service, pursuit, undertaking, concern, post, berth, craft, sphere, field, specialty, walk of life; see also church 3, education 3, journalism, law 5, medicine 3, trade 2.

  2. A declaration

    pretense, avowal, vow; see declaration 1, oath 1.

profession Usage Examples

Preposition: as

whole: So thanks are due to the profession as a whole for the contribution which it has made to the generation of new standards.

Converse of object

  • ally: Our fully illustrated reports share our best practice with others in our own and allied professions.
  • enter: This course provides a good basis for entering the actuarial profession.
  • regulate: The Commissioners considered in what circumstances a body set up to regulate the profession could be charitable.
  • practice: You must also have successfully completed any professional training required to enable you to practice the profession concerned.
  • choose: As a dancer you have chosen an artistic profession, as I did.
  • quit: Doctors may quit profession - 30 Nov 05 Doctors will leave the profession because of declining medical professionalism, a new survey has predicted.

Adjective modifier

  • actuarial: This course provides a good basis for entering the actuarial profession.
  • veterinary: For the veterinary profession, all three are changing fast.
  • medical: Irvine has been a man with a mission: the reform of the medical profession.
  • legal: The legal profession should be barred from the process.
  • caring: Increasingly, the attitudes of male professionalism have seemed outrageously at odds with a supposedly caring profession.
  • chosen: They go into auto-pilot to escape they true nature of their chosen profession, closing their eyes to the very world around them.

Modifies a noun

framework: An emerging health professions framework The subject specific statements for physiotherapy have been set within the emerging health professions framework outlined below.

Noun used with modifier

  • accountancy: Some of our people make an important contribution to the accountancy profession more generally.
  • nursing: They would have to pull together to try to attract to the nursing profession very many more nurses.
  • healthcare: These new schemes are an important step forward in ensuring that the healthcare professions better reflect the wider population through widening participation.
  • teaching: In the long term the Government expects up to 5 % of the teaching profession to have gone through the fast track.
  • accounting: Thirdly, the accounting profession is quite influential in Hong Kong.
  • auditing: Hewitt also launched a review into the regulation of the accountancy and auditing professions.