A profession is a type of job that requires advanced education or training.
Harper was a teacher by profession.
Only 20 per cent of jobs in the professions are held by women.
Synonyms: occupation, calling, business, career More Synonyms of profession
2. countable noun [with singular or plural verb]
You can use profession to refer to all the people who have the same profession.
The attitude of the medical profession is very much more liberal now.
More Synonyms of profession
profession in British English
(prəˈfɛʃən)
noun
1.
an occupation requiring special training in the liberal arts or sciences, esp one of the three learned professions, law, theology, or medicine
2.
the body of people in such an occupation
3.
the act of professing; avowal; declaration
4.
a. Also called: profession of faith
a declaration of faith in a religion, esp as made on entering the Church of that religion or an order belonging to it
b.
the faith or the religion that is the subject of such a declaration
Word origin
C13: from Medieval Latin professiō the taking of vows upon entering a religious order, from Latin: public acknowledgment;see profess
profession in American English
(proʊˈfɛʃən; prəˈfɛʃən)
noun
1.
a professing, or declaring; avowal, whether true or pretended
a profession of sympathy
2.
a.
the avowal of belief in a religion
b.
a faith or religion professed
3.
a.
a vocation or occupation requiring advanced education and training, and involving intellectual skills, as medicine, law, theology, engineering, teaching, etc.
b.
the body of persons in any such calling or occupation
c. Loosely
any occupation
4.
the act or ceremony of taking vows on formally entering a religious order
Idioms:
the oldest profession
Word origin
OFr < L professio
Examples of 'profession' in a sentence
profession
Surely she didn't carry that much weight in the profession.
Hinxman, Margaret THE SOUND OF MURDER (1989)
Tell him my hobby is guessing the profession of people from their appearance.
Forbes, Colin COVER STORY (1989)
Even in a prison setting, noted Lucy Durmast drily to herself, the habit of meiosis didn't desert the medical profession.
Aird, Catherine A DEAD LIBERTY (1989)
Neither did the people whose job it was to track them down -- probably the most unrewarded segment of the law-enforcement profession.
Clancy, Tom CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER (1989)
In other languages
profession
British English: profession /prəˈfɛʃən/ NOUN
A profession is a type of job that requires advanced education or training.
He was a teacher by profession.
American English: profession
Arabic: حِرْفَة
Brazilian Portuguese: profissão
Chinese: 职业
Croatian: profesija
Czech: profese
Danish: profession
Dutch: beroep
European Spanish: profesión
Finnish: ammatti
French: profession
German: Beruf
Greek: επάγγελμα
Italian: professione
Japanese: 職業
Korean: 직업
Norwegian: fag
Polish: zawód
European Portuguese: profissão
Romanian: profesie
Russian: профессия
Latin American Spanish: profesión
Swedish: yrke
Thai: อาชีพ
Turkish: meslek
Ukrainian: професія
Vietnamese: nghề
All related terms of 'profession'
acting profession
→ the acting profession
legal profession
→ the legal profession
medical profession
the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
scholastic profession
→ the scholastic profession
teaching profession
→ the teaching profession
profession of faith
an occupation requiring special training in the liberal arts or sciences , esp one of the three learned professions , law, theology , or medicine