profession
- profession
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ chosen
▪ noble (esp. AmE)
▪ We are members of an old and noble profession.
▪ caring (BrE), health-care (esp. AmE), helping (AmE)
▪ She always wanted to work in the caring professions.
▪ training programs for the helping professions
▪ legal, medical, nursing, teaching, etc.
VERB + PROFESSION
▪ practise/practice
▪ In the 1930s he was forbidden to practise/practice his profession.
▪ enter, go into, join
▪ She entered the legal profession after college.
▪ learn
▪ a job where people can learn the profession
▪ advance (esp. AmE)
▪ Nurses advance the profession through active involvement in their professional organizations.
▪ serve (esp. AmE)
▪ He has served the medical profession admirably.
▪ regulate
▪ the licensing laws that regulate the profession
▪ change
▪ It's time to change your profession for something more exciting.
▪ leave
▪ the primary reason why nurses leave the profession
PREPOSITION
▪ by profession
▪ He was a physician by profession.
▪ in a/sb's/the profession
▪ She's making an impact in her chosen profession.
PHRASES
▪ a choice of profession
▪ She was shocked at her daughter's choice of profession.
▪ the top of sb's profession
▪ He reached the top of his profession in very little time.
▪ the oldest profession (= prostitution)
▪ Prostitution is often described as the oldest profession in the world.
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profession — [ prɔfesjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1155; lat. professio I ♦ 1 ♦ (Dans la loc. faire profession de ) Déclaration ouverte, publique (d une croyance, d une opinion, d un comportement). Faire profession d une religion. Faire profession de libéralisme. Faire… … Encyclopédie Universelle
profession — Profession. s. f. v. Aveu public. Je fais profession d estre vostre serviteur, j en fais une profession publique. une profession solemnelle. On dit, Faire une profession de foy, pour dire, Faire une declaration publique de sa foy, & des… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
profession — pro‧fes‧sion [prəˈfeʆn] noun [countable] JOBS 1. a job that needs advanced education and special training: • realtors, a profession with an established record of service to the public • People assume that money management is a well paid… … Financial and business terms
Profession — Pro*fes sion, n. [F., fr. L. professio. See {Profess}, v.] 1. The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith. [1913 Webster] A solemn vow, promise, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
profession — Profession, Professio. Faire profession de quelque chose et s en mesler publiquement, Aliquid profiteri. Profession de bien parler, Bene dicendi professio. La profession et art dont se mesle l orateur, Vis et facultas oratoris. Profession de… … Thresor de la langue françoyse
Profession — Sf Beruf erw. fach. (16. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. profession, dieses aus l. professio öffentliche Angabe , zu l. profitērī öffentlich angeben zu l. fatērī bekennen und l. prō. Adjektiv: professionell. Professional Berufssportler… … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache
profession — ► NOUN 1) a paid occupation, especially one involving training and a formal qualification. 2) (treated as sing. or pl. ) a body of people engaged in a profession. 3) an open but typically false claim. 4) a declaration of belief in a religion. ●… … English terms dictionary
profession — I (declaration) noun affirmation, announcement, assertion, assurance, attestation, averment, avowal, claim, confession, declaration of faith, disclosure, enunciation, notification, oath, pledge, presentation, professio, pronouncement,… … Law dictionary
profession — (n.) c.1200, vows taken upon entering a religious order, from O.Fr. profession, from L. professionem (nom. professio) public declaration, from professus (see PROFESS (Cf. profess)). Meaning occupation one professes to be skilled in is from early… … Etymology dictionary
profession — [prō fesh′ən, prəfesh′ən] n. [OFr < L professio] 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 … English World dictionary
Profession — Profession,die:⇨Beruf(1) Profession→Beruf … Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme
