0 any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill, often one that is respected because it involves a high level of education:
1 a statement about what someone feels, believes, or intends to do, often made publicly:
his professions of love
The energy companies' professions of commitment to the environment seem less believable every day.
2 any type of work, esp. one that needs a high level of education or a particular skill:
3 a job that needs a high level of education or special training:
enter/go into/leave a profession We won't get people to enter a profession that doesn't reward effectiveness.
She is a leading commercial lawyer who is highly respected within the profession.
sb is sth by profession He's an architect by profession.
the accountancy/teaching/engineering profession
What is it like to work in a profession where more than 97% of your colleagues are men?
4 the people who do a particular type of work, considered as a group:
There's a feeling among the nursing profession that their work is undervalued.
5 jobs that need special training and skill, such as being a doctor or lawyer, rather than jobs in business or industry:
enter/go into the professions It was an environment where science was a dirty word and his fellow pupils were encouraged to go into the professions.
The struggle for equality in the military is not over yet, but women are making significant gains in this area, as they are in business, politics, and the professions.
The need to reach across the jargon of different professions is a starting point.
In the architecture and design professions, it is rare for academic curricula to cover the needs of frail older people.
In addition, the ar ticles are accessible to students, so teachers can use them in courses that include a consideration of language and the professions.
The fourth issue is that of community care and the health care professions.
Historians of women's work have tended to present the history of women in the professions as a story of exclusion and later triumphant entry.
There are also middle-level organisations that relate to socio-economic occupations, the professions, religions, interest groups, socio-economic sectors and socio-development.
Moreover, it does not account for the attainment of professional status (where it actually existed), but instead simply labels certain occupations as professions.
The building and manning of canoes in the nineteenth century remained specialized professions, as they had been before 1800.
