Occupation vs. Profession
Occupationnoun
An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
Occupationnoun
The act, process or state of possessing a place.
Occupationnoun
The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
Occupationnoun
The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
Occupationnoun
That which occupies or engages the time and attention.
Occupationnoun
The principal business of one's life; the principal work by which one earns one's livelihood; vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade; avocation; as, these days many people continue to practice their occupation well into their seventies.
Occupationnoun
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
Occupationnoun
the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
Occupationnoun
any activity that occupies a person's attention;
Occupationnoun
the act of occupying or taking possession of a building;
Occupationnoun
the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied;
Occupationnoun
a job or profession
Occupationnoun
a way of spending time
Occupationnoun
the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force
Occupationnoun
the action of entering and taking control of a building
Occupationnoun
the action of living in or using a building or other place
Occupationadjective
for the sole use of the occupiers of the land concerned
Professionnoun
A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
Professionnoun
A declaration of belief, faith or of one's opinion.
Professionnoun
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.
Professionnoun
The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
Professionnoun
The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
Professionnoun
That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
Professionnoun
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.
Professionnoun
The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
Professionnoun
The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
Professionnoun
the body of people in a learned occupation;
Professionnoun
an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
Professionnoun
an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion;
Professionnoun
affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith;
Profession
A profession is an occupation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain. Medieval and early modern tradition recognized only three professions: divinity, medicine, and law, which were called the learned professions.
