Profession (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching.
  2. any vocation or business.
  3. the body of persons engaged in an occupation or calling: to be respected by the medical profession.
  4. the act of professing; avowal; a declaration, whether true or false: professions of dedication.
  5. the declaration of belief in or acceptance of religion or a faith: the profession of Christianity.
  6. a religion or faith professed.
  7. the declaration made on entering into membership of a church or religious order.
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
    • a declaration of faith in a religion, esp as made on entering the Church of that religion or an order belonging to it
    • the faith or the religion that is the subject of such a declaration
Profession (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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