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Meaning of 'profession'
Meaning of 'profession' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Profession 
[ 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.
- 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.
- The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
- The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
Meaning of 'profession' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. profession [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith
- affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith
Example in sentence:
- a profession of Christianity
Meaning (2):
- an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
- an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
Example in sentence:
- a profession of disagreement
Meaning (3):
- the body of people in a learned occupation
- the body of people in a learned occupation
Example in sentence:
- the news spread rapidly through the medical profession;
- they formed a community of scientists
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