1 [C] a type of job that needs special training or skill, especially one that needs a high level of education:
the medical / legal / teaching profession * to enter / go into / join the nursing profession * (BrE) the caring professions (= that involve looking after people) * He was an electrician by profession. * She was at the very top of her profession.
2 (the profession) [sing.+sing./pl.v.] all the people who work in a particular type of profession:
The legal profession has / have always resisted change.
3 (the professions) [pl.] the traditional jobs that need a high level of education and training, such as being a doctor or a lawyer:
employment in industry and the professions
4 [C] ~ of sth a statement about what you believe, feel or think about sth, that is sometimes made publicly:
a profession of faith * His professions of love did not seem sincere.
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