Profession
[prə'feʃ(ə)n] or [prə'fɛʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences).
(noun.) affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith; 'a profession of Christianity'.
(noun.) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion; 'a profession of disagreement'.
(noun.) the body of people in a learned occupation; 'the news spread rapidly through the medical profession'; 'they formed a community of scientists'.
Editor: Pasquale--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
(v.) That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
(v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.
(v.) The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
(v.) The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Declaration, avowal, claim.[2]. Employment (that requires a learned education), calling, occupation, business, AVOCATION.
Typist: Steven
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Avowal, declaration, business, occupation, trade, calling, vocation,[SeeDECLARATION]
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Examples
- The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the regular army, from highest to lowest, were educated in their profession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We see so much malice and so little indignation in my profession. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I asked Caddy what had made their parents choose this profession for them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Graham, however, must go: his was a profession whose claims are neither to be ignored nor deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yes--well--you have got a good start; you are in the right profession, the work you feel yourself most fit for. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It had been my profession, for years past, to be in this close contact with young girls of all ages, and of all orders of beauty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I could better bear to lose her because not rich enough, than because of my profession. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It has been death to many, but it is a joke in the profession. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We never could agree in our choice of a profession. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Miss Summerson, stammered Mr. Guppy, I--I--beg your pardon, but in our profession--we--we--find it necessary to be explicit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But I have nothing to do with men of your profession, and can't help you there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The catching business, we beg to remind them, is rising to the dignity of a lawful and patriotic profession. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Answer:--which proved fatal to the inquiry for ten years--Mr. Vholes is considered, in the profession, a MOST respectable man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was conscious of an impropriety in my disputing with a military man in matters of his profession, and said no more. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I hold that by refusing to work with Mr. Bulstrode I should be turning my back on an opportunity of making my profession more generally serviceable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Honour makes a great part of the reward of all honourable professions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was a recognized principle of the Society freely to admit men of different religions, countries, professions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I make no professions, and say no more. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The production of engravings is just as highly technical and scientific and involves as much experience and judgment in their application as any of the learned professions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Directly, rejoined Amy, with a letter full of professions of the deepest gratitude. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the greatest part of mechanic trades success is almost certain; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It might then not be worth any man's while to educate his son to either of those professions at his own expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The brothers of these girls are every one in business or in professions; they have something to do. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I only want to have been in the church to have made the round of all the professions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Rivalship and emulation render excellency, even in mean professions, an object of ambition, and frequently occasion the very greatest exertions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Hours, minutes and seconds began to be carefully prized, both by the trades and professions, and the demand from the common people for accurate time records became great. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- On the contrary, men engaged in other professions find, as a rule, that they improve and advance with experience, and that age brings larger rewards and opportunities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His professions and his proposals did him no service. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Accordingly, he filled those places with such as prostituted their professions to his notions of prerogative. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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