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PROFESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("profession" is a kind of...):
business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profession"):
learned profession (one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles)
literature (the profession or art of a writer)
architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)
education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))
journalism (the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media)
politics (the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs)
engineering (the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith
Example:
a profession of Christianity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("profession" is a kind of...):
affirmation ((religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds))
Derivation:
profess (take vows, as in religious order)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
Example:
a profession of disagreement
Synonyms:
professing; profession
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("profession" is a kind of...):
affirmation; avouchment; avowal (a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something)
Derivation:
profess (admit (to a wrongdoing))
Sense 4
Meaning:
The body of people in a learned occupation
Example:
they formed a community of scientists
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("profession" is a kind of...):
occupational group; vocation (a body of people doing the same kind of work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profession"):
bar; legal community; legal profession (the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction)
health profession (the body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients)
business community; businessmen (the body of individuals who manage businesses)
community of scholars (the body of individuals holding advanced academic degrees)
economics profession (the body of professional economists)
priesthood (the body of ordained religious practitioners)
Context examples:
Lanyon, you remember your vows: what follows is under the seal of our profession.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is not his profession, then?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We never could agree in our choice of a profession.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The stress you have felt in your profession will start to melt, dear Aries.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The actions of prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions.
(Healthcare Activity, NCI Thesaurus)
The profession concerned with the teeth, oral cavity, and associated structures, and the diagnosis and treatment of their diseases including prevention and the restoration of defective and missing tissue.
(Dentistry, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Professions that require the skills and experiences of nurses, but do not require actual patient contact on a regular basis.
(Non-Clinical Specialty Nurse, NCI Thesaurus)
Includes the laboratory-based development of new forms of technology, studies of health-related professions, institutions, and systems, excludes disease-oriented studies of material, obtained from patients who were unknown to investigators.
(Patient Oriented Research, NCI Thesaurus)
I am well disposed towards him, however, and I consider him eminently adapted for the profession which he is about to adopt.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You will rise high in your profession. You have instinct and intuition,” said he.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
