Profession
Definition of Profession
Pro`fes´sion | n. | 1. | The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith. | | 2. | That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere. | | 3. | 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. | | 4. | The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him. | | 5. | (Eccl. Law.) The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order. |
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