Definition of Profession

Profession The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith. 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. Related Definitions: Acknowledgment, Act, Agricultural, An, And, Are, Arms, As, Avowal, Becoming, Body, Business, Calling, Chemistry, Claim, Claiming, Clergyman, Collective, Declaration, Distrust, Employment, Engaged, Entering, Faith, Follow, For, Friendship, Him, His, If, In, Insincere, Knowledge, Lawyer, Lecturer, Like, Mechanical, Member, Not, Occupation, Of, On, One, Open, Or, Order, Physician, Professed, Professing, Profession, Public, Religious, Self, Subsistence, That, The, To, Understand, Vocation, Which

Profession Quotations It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. Pablo Picasso Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. Will Rogers To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. Robert Frost I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. Dwight D. Eisenhower Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. Dwight D. Eisenhower Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. Dwight D. Eisenhower Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. Katharine Hepburn

Profession Translations profession in Afrikaans is beroep profession in Danish is stilling profession in Dutch is beroep, broodwinning, bedrijf profession in Finnish is ammatti profession in French is profession profession in German is Beruf profession in Norwegian is yrke