PROFESSION
\pɹəfˈɛʃən], \pɹəfˈɛʃən], \p_ɹ_ə_f_ˈɛ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PROFESSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
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affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith; "a profession of Christianity"
By Princeton University
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an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
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affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith; "a profession of Christianity"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
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That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
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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.
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The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
By Oddity Software
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The act of declaring; an open declaration; religious faith; a pretense; calling or vocation, especially one that requires learning; as, the profession of medicine; all the persons engaged in any one calling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Act of professing; declaration; employment; body of persons engaged in any profession.
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Professional.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An occupation that involves a liberal education. and mental rather than manual labor.
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The act of professing, or that which is professed.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Act of professing; open declaration ; public avowal ; - that which one pro-fesses ; a declaration ; .an avowal ; a claim :-the occupation to which one devotes himself ; calling ; vocation ; employment ; - the collective body of persons engaged in a calling ;-act of taking a religious or monastic vow. Learned profession, such as requires a previous college education in its licentiates or practitioners, as law, medicine, and divinity.
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