profession
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2.9
- noun
- /prəˈfɛʃən/
:
profesión
- Many people choose teaching as their profession because they enjoy working with students.
- teaching profession
- engineering profession
- legal profession
And for some strange reason, the healthcare profession has not done that.
- And for some strange reason, the healthcare profession has not done that.
- And I said to him, how many people in your profession really know what they're doing?
- Yes, people in these professions don't receive the same kind of hate.
- Most people in any profession, they fall in love with the profession.
- And what's happened to the professions, I think is a serious problem in our country.
- He was very encouraging of women and women in the professions and women in leadership.
Examples
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Whatever the outcome, such discussions would be useful in a profession concerned with issues of diversity.
Academic text (2008) -
The profession is law enforcement.
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I want to talk to you about the sales profession, I believe.
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Honestly, most in our profession feel that way.
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My profession does not allow me to make that kind of distinction.
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And people wondered why folks in my profession burn out after a few years.
Fiction book (1999) -
Moreover, these cases cut to the core of why the legal profession exists at all.
Academic text (2017) -
In our profession, punctuality is not an option.
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For the past decade, library media has been a profession at a crossroads.
Academic text (2015) -
Many indicators show that our profession has maintained a steady strain, and the future is bright.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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3.8
A group of people who do the same type of work
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3.1
A group of people who do the same job
A job like law or medicine that needs a lot of study and high moral standards
Antonyms
Compounds
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2.8
A group of trained people like doctors and nurses who are licensed to treat sick people
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3.3
A group of people qualified and licensed to practice law in a country or area
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3.1
Jobs for people who help keep or make others healthy, like doctors and nurses
- Formal
A job like law or medicine that needs a lot of study and high moral standards
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Profession later came to mean the whole group of people who do a particular trained job, like the teaching or legal profession, because these workers publicly 'professed' their training and standards. That's why we can speak of a whole profession of lawyers or teachers.