Profession Prəˈfeʃn Made Noun Medical/Legal/Teaching Enter/Go Into/Join Caring

• the medical/legal/teaching profession
• to enter/go into/join a profession
• the caring professions (= that involve looking after people)
• she was at the very top of her profession.

profession

1. a type of job that needs special training or skill, especially one that needs a high level of education
• the medical/legal/teaching profession
• to enter/go into/join a profession
• the caring professions (= that involve looking after people)
• She was at the very top of her profession.
• senior members of the profession
• He was a lawyer by profession.

Extra Examples

• It's time to change your profession for something more exciting.
• She entered the legal profession after college.
• What made you choose this profession?
• We are members of an old and noble profession.
• She was shocked at her daughter's choice of profession.
• a job where people can learn the profession
• the primary reason why nurses leave the profession
• I joined the profession when I was in my early twenties.
• She's making an impact in her chosen profession.
2. all the people who work in a particular type of profession
• The legal profession has/have always resisted change.
• the licensing laws that regulate the profession
3. the traditional jobs that need a high level of education and training, such as being a doctor or a lawyer
• employment in industry and the professions
4. a statement about what you believe, feel or think about something, that is sometimes made publicly
• SYNONYM declaration
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/declaration
• a profession of faith
• His professions of love did not seem sincere.

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting the vow made on entering a religious order): via Old French from Latin professio(n-), from profiteri ‘declare publicly’, from pro- ‘before’ + fateri ‘confess’. Senses (1) and (2) derive from the notion of an occupation that one “professes” to be skilled in.