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单词 profession
释义

profession

/prəˈfɛʃ(ə)n /
noun
1A paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification: his chosen profession of teaching a barrister by profession...
  • Meanwhile US hacks have convinced themselves that they're involved in a profession rather than a craft.
  • By profession he was a poet, and he'd appeared in Galway several times before - at poetry readings, unaccompanied by a band.
  • By profession I am a well-known book illustrator and artist.

Synonyms

career, occupation, calling, vocation, line of work, line of employment, line, métier;
business, trade, craft, walk of life, sphere;
job, day job, position;
Scottish way
informal racket
archaic employ
1.1 [treated as singular or plural] A body of people engaged in a particular profession: the legal profession has become increasingly business-conscious...
  • The Law Society of Alberta, the regulatory body for the legal profession, says no complaints have been filed as of yet against anyone.
  • The legal profession's peak body, the Law Council, called on judges to boycott the new regime.
  • That is a very proper process, as essentially this is the constitution of the legal profession in our nation.
2An open but often false claim: his profession of delight rang hollow...
  • Nations have frequently tired of freedom and yielded themselves to tyrants, but not because of guileless trust in false professions.
  • In his professions, he claimed the Blair Witch had placed a hex on him, forcing him to commit the murders.
  • The great point of that book was to deal with this problem of a false profession.

Synonyms

declaration, affirmation, statement, announcement, proclamation, assertion, avowal, vow, claim, allegation, protestation;
acknowledgement, admission, confession
rare asseveration, averment
3A declaration of belief in a religion: [mass noun]: they were baptized on profession of faith...
  • Generally, chaplains of any faith can gain access to local religious leaders since religion and a profession of faith are the common bonds.
  • Having ‘God’ in it divides us and attempts to link patriotism to public professions of religious belief.
  • Living ‘by faith in’ suggests that faith is a profession to be asserted, a willed thing.
3.1The declaration or vows made on entering a religious order.Ironically, religious profession and the renuncia could create an opportunity for women to administer property autonomously.
3.2 [mass noun] The ceremony or fact of being professed in a religious order: after profession she taught in Maidenhead...
  • Also celebrating her 50th Anniversary of religious profession, Sister Edna O'Connor, a native of Irishtown.
  • At solemn profession, I placed my hands in those of my prioress, professing to live my vows usque ad mortem, until death.

Phrases

the oldest profession

Origin

Middle English (denoting the vow made on entering a religious order): via Old French from Latin professio(n-), from profiteri 'declare publicly' (see profess). sense 1 derives from the notion of an occupation that one ‘professes’ to be skilled in.

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