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Definition of Profession

Profession The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith. That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere. 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. The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him. The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order. Related Definitions: Acknowledgment, Act, Agricultural, An, And, Are, Arms, As, Avowal, Becoming, Body, Business, Calling, Chemistry, Claim, Claiming, Clergyman, Collective, Declaration, Distrust, Employment, Engaged, Entering, Faith, Follow, For, Friendship, Him, His, If, In, Insincere, Knowledge, Lawyer, Lecturer, Like, Mechanical, Member, Not, Occupation, Of, On, One, Open, Or, Order, Physician, Professed, Professing, Profession, Public, Religious, Self, Subsistence, That, The, To, Understand, Vocation, Which

Profession Quotations Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. Michael T. Thomas He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession. Clifton Paul Fadiman I was in a profession that received a lot of media. Darrell Royal It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward Beecher

Profession Translations profession in Afrikaans is beroep profession in Danish is stilling profession in Dutch is beroep, broodwinning, bedrijf profession in Finnish is ammatti profession in French is profession profession in German is Beruf profession in Norwegian is yrke

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