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Definition of Professions
1. profession [n] - See also: profession
Lexicographical Neighbors of Professions
Literary usage of Professions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1846)
"On the Duration of Life in the Members of the Several Professions. By WILLIAM A.
GUY, MD, Cantab.; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Professor of ..."
2. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1866)
"The ablest men in the country no longer flocked into the church, but preferred
those secular professions in which ability was more likely to be rewarded.152 ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"As many of the acts fiom which the parties were obliged to purge themselves by
the oath had no relation to their fitness for Hie pursuit» and professions ..."