Professional vs. Profession
Professionalnoun
A person who belongs to a profession
Professionalnoun
A person who earns their living from a specified activity
Professionalnoun
A reputation known by name
Professionalnoun
An expert.
Professionaladjective
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
Professionaladjective
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
Professionaladjective
(by extension) Expert.
Professionaladjective
Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.
Professionaladjective
Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; - opposed to amateur.
Professionalnoun
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
Professionalnoun
a person engaged in one of the learned professions
Professionalnoun
an athlete who plays for pay
Professionalnoun
an authority qualified to teach apprentices
Professionaladjective
engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood;
Professionaladjective
of or relating to or suitable as a profession;
Professionaladjective
characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession;
Professionaladjective
of or relating to a profession;
Professionaladjective
engaged in by members of a profession;
Professional
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns a living from a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.
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.
