Profession

Definition:

  • (v.) The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
  • (v.) That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
  • (v.) 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.
  • (v.) The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
  • (v.) The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.

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profession vs. skill

expertise vs. profession

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