profession

• WordNet 3.6
  • n profession an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
  • n profession affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith "a profession of Christianity"
  • n profession an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion "a profession of disagreement"
  • n profession the body of people in a learned occupation "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession","they formed a community of scientists"
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• Interesting fact: Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession
• • Profession 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. "Hi tried five or six professions in turn."
  • Profession That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere. "The Indians quickly perceive the coincidence or the contradiction between professions and conduct."
  • Profession (Eccl. Law) The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
  • Profession The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith. "A solemn vow, promise, and profession ."
  • Profession The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
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• • n profession The act of professing; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment of one's sentiments or belief.
  • n profession That which is professed; a declaration; a representation or protestation; pretense; specifically, an open and formal avowal of Christian faith and purpose.
  • n profession The calling or occupation which one professes to understand and to follow; vocation; specifically, a vocation in which a professed knowledge of some department of science or learning is used by its practical application to affairs of others, either in advising, guiding, or teaching them, or in serving their interests or welfare in the practice of an art founded on it. Formerly theology, law, and medicine were specifically known as the professions; but, as the applications of science and learning are extended to other departments of affairs, other vocations also receive the name. The word implies professed attainments in special knowledge, as distinguished from mere skill; a practical dealing with affairs, as distinguished from mere study or investigation; and an application of such knowledge to uses for others as a vocation, as distinguished from its pursuit for one's own purposes. In professions strictly so called a preliminary examination as to qualifications is usually demanded by law or usage, and a license or other official authority founded thereon required. In law the significance of the word has been contested under statutes imposing taxes on persons pursuing any “occupation, trade, or profession,” and under statutes authorizing arrest in civil actions for misconduct in a “professional employment”; and it has been, in the former use, held clearly to include the vocation of an attorney, and upon the same principle would doubtless include physicians, unless the mention of trade, etc., in the same clause of the statute be ground for interpreting the statute as relating only to business vocations. Professional employment, in statutes allowing arrest, is regarded as not including a private agency like that of a factor or a real-estate broker, which can be taken up and laid down at pleasure.
  • n profession The collective body of persons engaged in a calling: as, practices disgraceful to the profession; to be at the head of one's profession.
  • n profession The act by which a novice enters into a religious order and takes its vows. In the Roman Catholic Church he or she must be at least sixteen years of age and must have completed a year of probation.
  • n profession Character; nature.
  • n profession Synonyms Vocation, Business, etc. See occupation.
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• • n Profession the act of professing: open declaration: pretence: an employment not mechanical and requiring some degree of learning: calling or known employment: the collective body of persons engaged in any profession: entrance into a religious order
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• Jean Jacques Rousseau

  

  “The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it”
• Corra May Harris

  

  “The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”
• Will Rogers

  

  “Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.”
• Mark Twain

  

  “Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
• Elbert Hubbard

  

  “Live truth instead of professing it.”
• William Hazlitt

  

  “People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.”

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