noun. undefined

noun. An occupation or career.

noun. An occupation, such as law, medicine, or engineering, that requires considerable training and specialized study.

noun. The body of qualified persons in an occupation or field.

noun. An act or instance of professing; a declaration.

noun. An avowal of faith or belief.

noun. A faith or belief.

noun. The act of professing; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment of one's sentiments or belief.

noun. That which is professed; a declaration; a representation or protestation; pretense; specifically, an open and formal avowal of Christian faith and purpose.

noun. The calling or occupation which one professes to understand and to follow; vocation; specifically, a vocation in which a professed knowledge of some department of science or learning is used by its practical application to affairs of others, either in advising, guiding, or teaching them, or in serving their interests or welfare in the practice of an art founded on it.

noun. The collective body of persons engaged in a calling: as, practices disgraceful to the profession; to be at the head of one's profession.

noun. The act by which a novice enters into a religious order and takes its vows. In the Roman Catholic Church he or she must be at least sixteen years of age and must have completed a year of probation.

noun. Character; nature.

noun. Synonyms Vocation, Business, etc. See occupation.

noun. The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment

noun. That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim.

noun. 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

noun. The collective body of persons engaged in a calling.

noun. The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.

noun. A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.

noun. A declaration of belief, faith or of one's opinion.

noun. An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.

noun. The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

noun. the body of people in a learned occupation

noun. an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion

noun. affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith

noun. an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

"Let this be generally done, and teaching will soon be raised, in public estimation, to the rank of a learned profession; and the _fourth learned profession_ -- the vocation of the practical educator -- will be taken up for life by as great a proportion of men and women eminent for talent, cultivation, and moral worth, as either of the other three professions have ever been able to boast."

acknowledgment  affection  belief  business  declaration  

liberal profession  professional  

affirmation  avouchment  avowal  

Hessian  accession  aggression  compression  concession  

business  career  character  discipline  duty  

acceptance  acknowledgment  admission  affidavit  affirmance