profession
IPA: prʌfˈɛʃʌn
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "profession" in Sentences
- It is the benchmark in the profession.
- Grading is the bane of the profession.
- By profession he was a surgeon oculist.
- The profession of the people is farming.
- By profession, he was a surgeon oculist.
- The profession is similar to a paralegal.
- This was the duty and profession of the Nairs.
- Acting is hardly a profession for the reclusive.
- What was the profession is the lag (in the novel)?
- It is a variety of the profession of the toolmaker.
- 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.