profession

IPA: prʌfˈɛʃʌn

Declaration of faith.
(religion) A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion; hence, one's faith or religion.
Any declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or (as now often implied) pretended.
Professional occupation.
An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.
(collective) The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

Examples of "profession" in Sentences

What was the profession is the lag (in the novel)?
Compared to that, he says, his profession is a model of discretion.
So this profession is the background of the priestly mystery of Jesus, his sacrifice for us all.
You can say “I doctor” or “my profession doctor” not “I am a doctor” or “my profession is a doctor.”
His mothers main profession is one of the major reasons Adrian decided to be different from the people around him.
Auditors are not exactly pleading guilty for their role in the disaster but the profession is acknowledging that there may be a need to change.
But, since the profession is already much more bifurcated between litigators and non-litigators than formal statistics would suggest, I doubt it.
Though a part of me would like to get so big that hiding my profession is the next thing, another part of me enjoys the minor celebrity status, just as I did when someone noticed the gleaming edge of that badge in my wallet.
Let this be generally done, and teaching will soon be raised, in public estimation, to the rank of a learned profession; and the _fourth learned profession_ -- the vocation of the practical educator -- will be taken up for life by as great a proportion of men and women eminent for talent, cultivation, and moral worth, as either of the other three professions have ever been able to boast.