Profession vs. Employment

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.

Employmentnoun

A use, purpose

Employmentnoun

The act of employing

Employmentnoun

The state of being employed

Employmentnoun

The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid

Employmentnoun

An activity to which one devotes time

Employmentnoun

(economics) The number or percentage of people at work

Employmentnoun

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

Employmentnoun

That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government.

Employmentnoun

the state of being employed or having a job;

Employmentnoun

the occupation for which you are paid;

Employmentnoun

the act of giving someone a job

Employmentnoun

the act of using;

Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee. Employees work in return for payment, which may be in the form of an hourly wage, by piecework or an annual salary, depending on the type of work an employee does or which sector they are working in.