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Definition: Profession |
ProfessionNoun1. The body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community". 2. An occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences). 3. An open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion; "a profession of disagreement". 4. Affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith; "a profession of Christianity". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "profession" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
Etymology: Profession \Pro*fes"sion\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression professio. See Profess, verb.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | An Internet domain name ("dot prof"). Source: European Union. (references) |
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the United States of America's foreign intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analysing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the US government. It also maintains a vast covert military apparatus, which during the Cold War was responsible for many attempts to depose foreign governments seen as pro-Soviet and opposing US interests, such as those of Arbenz in Guatemala and Allende in Chile. Its headquarters is in Langley, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C
Rear Adm. Sidney W. Souers, USNR January 23 1946 - June 10 1946 Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, USA June 10 1946 - May 1 1947 Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN May 1 1947 - October 7, 1950 Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, USA October 7 1950 - February 9 1953 Allen W. Dulles February 26, 1953 - November 29, 1961 John A. McCone November 29 1961 - April 28 1965 Vice Adm. William F. Raborn, Jr, USN (Ret.) April 28 1965 - June 30 1966 Richard M. Helms June 30 1966 - February 2 1973 James R. Schlesinger February 2, 1973 - July 2 1973 William E. Colby September 4 1973 - January 30 1976 George H. W. Bush January 30 1976 - January 20 1977 Adm. Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret.) March 9 1977 - January 20 1981 William J. Casey January 28 1981 - January 29 1987 William H. Webster May 26 1987 - August 31 1991 Robert M. Gates November 6 1991 - January 20 1993 R. James Woolsey February 5 1993 - January 10 1995 John M. Deutch May 10 1995 - December 15 1996 George J. Tenet July 11 1997 - present
See also
- MKULTRA - CIA experimentation with LSD
- CIA cryptonym
External links
- The official CIA home page: http://www.cia.gov/
- Homepage of Killing Hope, a deprecatory history of CIA interventions
- Description of an example of CIA crimes
- A timeline of CIA atrocities
Further Reading
- The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown With the KGB, Milton Bearden, James Risen, Milt Bearden, Random House, 2003, hardcover: 576 pages, ISBN 0679463097
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A profession is a specialized work function within society, generally performed by a professional.
Profession is often restricted to include only those occupations requiring extensive study and possessing a specialized knowledge or theory base, such as law, medicine, nursing, the clergy or engineering.
Terms such as ocupational serve the purpose of uphelding the distinction between professionals and others who for their living are dependent on their work rather than on their economic wealth. Such usage avoids the confusion caused by vague usage of the words professional and professionalism to express prestige, approval or a sense of exclusivity.
Sociologists have been known to define professionalism as organised exclusivity along guild lines, much in the sense that George Bernard Shaw characterised all professions as "conspiracies against the laity".
A profession is always held by a person, and it is generally that person's way of generating income. Some historians believe that the foundation of modern civilization is division of labour into different professions, thus increasing the level of expertise held by professionals.
The existence of a traceable historical record of notable members of the profession is used as an indicator of a profession. Often, these historic professionals are well-known to laypersons outside the field, for example, Clarence Darrow (law), Edward Jenner (medicine), and Florence Nightingale (nursing.)
The distinction between laypersons and professionals denotes the critical aspect of more liberal definitions of a profession: being paid for the work. As such, ball players and movie makers may be professionals, although their work does not fit the strict definition offered above.
See also: list of professions
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| prof | English | Profession | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ProfessionSynonyms: community (n), professing (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | Asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition; (record); avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession; acknowledgment; (assent); legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration. |
Belief | System of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons; article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith; tenets, credenda, creed; thirty-nine articles; (orthodoxy) a; catechism; assent; propaganda; (teaching). |
Business | Vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade; (commerce). |
Verb: pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; Noun: undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with; (do). | |
Lawyer | Bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers; officer of the court; gentleman of the long robe; junior bar, outer bar, inner bar; equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader. |
Maxim | Reflection; (idea); conclusion; (judgment); golden rule; (precept); principle, principia; profession of faith; (belief); settled principle, accepted principle, formula. |
Promise | Noun: promise, undertaking, word, troth, plight, pledge, parole, word of honor, vow; oath; (affirmation); profession, assurance, warranty, guarantee, insurance, obligation; contract; stipulation. |
Theology | Noun: theology (natural and revealed); theogony, theosophy; divinity; hagiology, hagiography; Caucasian mystery; monotheism; religion; religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination; creed; (belief); article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith. |
Untruth | Profession, empty words; Judas kiss; (hypocrisy); disguise; (mask). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Laugh all you want, but at least the stage is a dignified profession. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) Is this another profession of yours (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) That was my profession. Ex-cop (Blade Runner; writing credit: Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Based on the novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick.) I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) The only way to resign from our profession is to die. (Mata Hari; writing credit: Benjamin Glazer ; Leo Birinsky) | |
Movie/TV Titles | This Is Our Profession (1973) Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession (1970) The Lonely Profession (1969) A Dangerous Profession (1949) The Youngest Profession (1943) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Enlist in a Proud Profession! / Edmundson. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | "There is no man of greater weight in his profession." / Ape [pseud.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Photograph taken during World War II of the medal designed by Anthony C. Paquet during the Civil War. The Medal of Honor was authorized by Congress on 21 December 1861 for presentation to Navy enlisted personnel. Eligibility was extended in 1901 to any Navy man "who shall have distinguished himself in battle or displayed extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession". Credit: NAVY. |  | Another profession open to honest industry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a Certificate of Individual Production Merit. Mr. James is by profession a musician--organist and conductor. At his suggestion a m. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Through the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | I hold every man a debtor to his profession. |
George Eliot | The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. |
Katharine Hepburn | Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. |
| It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. | |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | My art and profession is to live. |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. |
Thomas More | Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters. |
William Hogarth | All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In particular they will be forbidden to instruct or exercise their members or to allow them to be instructed or exercised, in the profession or use of arms. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, supra, the Court, in requiring that a Negro admitted to a white graduate school be treated like all other students, again resorted to intangible considerations: "…his ability to study, to engage in discussions and exchange views with other students, and, in general, to learn his profession." (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Every profession has its aspirants who make up the cortege of those who are at the summit |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | To remedy which there was a sort of people bred up among us, in the profession or pretense of curing the sick |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The dental profession has been successful in promoting caries prevention. (references) | |
Other special groups that are affected by sleep disorder issues include employers, pharmaceutical companies, members of the legal profession, and developers of technology. (references) | ||
After a day and a half of presentations by experts in the field and discussion by the audience, a consensus panel drawn from specialists and generalists from the medical profession and related scientific disciplines, clinical investigators, and public representatives considered the evidence and came to the conclusions on the following pages. (references) | ||
Business | Patient and medical personnel safety is of growing concern to both the medical profession and the public. (references) | |
The profession of architecture in Poland is, and always has been, fairly independent from government control. (references) | ||
Yet, there are more credible reports of attacks on journalists in the exercise of their profession than in recent years. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Resolution 54 denies exit permits to medical professionals until they have performed 3 to 5 years of service in their profession after requesting permission to travel abroad. (references) |
Singapore | While the Government has not outlawed the profession or propagation of the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses and does not arrest members merely for being believers, the result of deregistration has been to make meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses illegal. (references) | |
Jordan | The Press and Publications Law and the law governing the Jordan Press Association (JPA) require membership in the JPA for persons to be considered "legal" journalists or editors, thus potentially excluding dozens of practicing journalists from the profession. (references) | |
Discrimination | Ireland | The Constitution forbids state promotion of one religion over another and discrimination on the grounds of religion, profession, belief, or status; however, until recently few laws implemented these provisions of the Constitution. (references) |
Economic History | Pakistan | In addition to capital markets, the SECP regulates corporations, insurance and pension companies and the accounting profession. (references) |
Korea | Over the last several decades, the Korean government has worked to liberalize the sector by allowing more graduates to enter into the profession. (references) | |
Human Rights | Azerbaijan | A Law on Advocates and Advocate Activity, to reform the legal profession was signed by the President; however, it had not been implemented by year's end. (references) |
Russia | Moreover, the new Law on the Status of Judges, approved in December, strives to eliminate subjectivity in the selection of judges, to facilitate access to the judicial profession by minimizing corruption in the appointment process, and to improve the accountability of judges by subjecting them to disciplinary and administrative liability and by introducing age limits. (references) | |
Turkey | The harassment of lawyers involved in political cases in the southeast and throughout the country continued, although there were fewer legal cases brought against attorneys than in 2000. Many attorneys are willing to defend politically sensitive cases and provide greater mutual support within the profession. (references) | |
Minorities | Netherlands | Of these cases, 75 percent concerned racist defamation; 11 percent distribution of racist material; 8 percent discrimination in the exercise of a profession or office; and 7 percent incitement to hatred, discrimination or violence. (references) |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | It also requires paid rest of at least 30 minutes during the standard 8-hour workday, as well as annual leave from four weeks up to eight weeks depending on the profession. (references) |
Sudan | The Government continued to harass and detain members of the legal profession whom it viewed as political opponents. (references) | |
Travel | Trinidad | The immigration regulations of Trinidad and Tobago allow persons entering the country to engage in gainful employment in any trade, profession or occupation without a work permit for a period not exceeding 30 days, with one entry per twelve months period permitted. (references) |
Women | Russia | Hospitals, crisis centers, and members of the medical profession provide assistance to women who have been assaulted; however, to avoid spending long periods of time in court, some doctors are reluctant to ascertain the details of a sexual assault or collect physical evidence. (references) |
Hong Kong | In 2000, for the first time, more women than men entered the legal profession as solicitors (204 to 159) and medical school (170 to 165). Nonetheless, in the medical profession there are few women in prestigious specialties such as surgery, and female judicial officers and judges make up only 19.2 percent of the judiciary. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Paraguay | For example, teachers returned to work after Congress promised to enact a labor statue specific to their profession, but such a law had not been passed at year's end. (references) |
Zambia | Of the country's 19 large national unions, organized by industry or profession, 18 are affiliated with the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). (references) | |
Yemen | Thus, citizens may associate by profession or trade. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises. I I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be We, but how there can be more than one myself is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this incomparable dictionary. Conception of two myselfs is difficult, but fine. The frank yet graceful use of "I" distinguishes a good writer from a bad; the latter carries it with the manner of a thief trying to cloak his loot. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rod Steiger | Well, unfortunately, I did what a lot of young people do. I tried to make it my life. I didn't learn until later that you can't make any profession your life. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Both officers and soldiers seem imbued with a proper sense of duty, and conform to the restraints of exact discipline with that cheerfulness which becomes the profession of arms. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Opening up the teaching profession to all qualified candidates, merit pay, so that good teachers get A's as well as apples, and stronger curriculum, as Secretary Bennett has proposed for high schools. |
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| "Profession" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.71% of the time. "Profession" is used about 3,067 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.71% | 3,058 | 3,065 |
| Noun (common) | 0.26% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,067 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "profession": by profession ♦ choice of a profession ♦ crowded profession ♦ economics profession ♦ exercise of a profession ♦ free profession ♦ go into a profession ♦ health profession ♦ learned profession ♦ legal profession ♦ medical profession ♦ profession of a doctor ♦ profession of faith ♦ profession of lawyer ♦ profession soldier ♦ regulated profession ♦ tailor by profession ♦ teaching profession ♦ the medical profession ♦ the profession ♦ training for a new profession ♦ without a profession. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "profession": profession-centred, profession-led, profession-orientated. | |
Ending with "profession": para-profession, quasi-profession, semi-profession. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "profession"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beroep (appeal, handicraft, occupation, trade). (various references) | |
Albanian | profesion (calling, career, employment, lay, line, metier, occupation, practice, trade, vocation, walks of life), zanat (art, calling, craft, little people, making, metier, mystery, trade, vocation), shprehje (emphasis, exponent, expression, locution, loose, phrase, phrases, term, transfusion, utterance, voice), shfaqje (apparition, appearance, demonstration, display, emergence, emersion, exhibition, manifestation, parade, presentation, presentment, raree show, reveal, screening, sellout, shew, show, showing, theatricals), njerëzit e profesionit, mjeshtëri (accomplishment, art, artifice, artistry, experience, expertise, finesse, hand, handicraft, masterliness, mastership, mastery, neatness, proficiency, skill, workmanship). (various references) | |
Arabic | مهنة (avocation, business, calling, career, craftsmanship, function, job, metier, occupation, practice, pursuit, trade, vocation, work), حرفة (calling, craft, craftsmanship, occupation, pursuit, trade, walk), صنعة (craft, handicraft, metier, workmanship), جاهر بإيمانه, إيمان مجاهر به, إعلان إيمانه, إعلان (ad, advertisement, advertising, announcement, annunciation, bill, bush, declaration, exploitation, gazette, notification, pitch, placard, poster, proclamation, promulgation, pronunciation, protestation, publicity, sign, spot), أهل المهنة الواحدة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хора от дадена професия, вероизповедание (confession, creed, cult, denomination, dispensation, persuasion), открито заявяване, обет (pledge, plight, vow), занятие (business, employment, line, metier, occupation, way), занаят (craft, handicraft, job, mystery, occupation, skill, trade, vocation), професия (business, career, craft, metier, occupation, path, shop, station, trade), професионалисти (pros), признание (acknowledgement, admission, avowal, confession, recognition), покалугеряване, подстригване (haircut, shearing, trimming), изповед (confession). (various references) | |
Chinese | 職業 (job occupation), 行业, 行 (a row, all right, behavior, capable, competent, conduct, OK, okay, professional, temporary, to do, to go, to travel, to walk, will do), 業務 (business), 工 (craft, labor, skill, trade, work, worker). (various references) | |
Czech | profese (calling, career, trade), vyznání (declaration), stav (condition, estate, fettle, frame of mind, order, posture, quality, sort, state, trim), hlásání. (various references) | |
Danish | stilling (handicraft, occupation, trade). (various references) | |
Dutch | broodwinning, beroep (appeal, handicraft, occupation, trade, vocation). (various references) | |
Esperanto | profesio. (various references) | |
Faeroese | starv (function, job, mission, office, post, practice), arbeiði (chore, job, work). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشه کار, پیشه (Craft, Function, Mystery, Occupation, Pursuit, Trade, Vocation), پیشگانی , حرفه ءی , حرفه (Avocation, Career, Metier, Mystery, Pursuit, Trade, Vocation), اقرار, اعتراف (Admission, Avowal), شغل (Employ, Job, Metier, Occupation, Office, Position, Post, Situation, Trade, Vocation, Work). (various references) | |
Finnish | ammatti (business, craft, occupation, trade). (various references) | |
French | profession (Professional). (various references) | |
Frisian | berop. (various references) | |
German | Beruf (calling, career, handicraft, occupation, trade, vocation), Profession. (various references) | |
Greek | επάγγελμα (avocation, calling, career, metier, occupation, trade, vocation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקצוע (avocation, branch, calling, metier, occupation, subject, trade, vocation, walks of life), "כרז" (announcement, avowal, declaration, intimation, proclamation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hivatás (avocation, calling, following, function, métier, metier, place, vocation), foglalkozás (avocation, job, line, occasions, occupation, station, task, trade). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ahli (ace, connoisseur, expert, highly competent, skilled, specialist). (various references) | |
Italian | professione (calling, job, occupation, vocation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 揚言 (declaration in public, opening declaration, proclamation), 公言 (declaration), 専門職 (professional job), 口前 (way of speaking). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くちまえ (way of speaking), せ"も"しょく (professional job), "う'" (a wide plain or field, antigen, boasting, bragging, declaration, flattery, light source, plateau, protest, tableland, talking big, wilderness), よう'" (declaration in public, declinable word, opening declaration, proclamation). (various references) | |
Korean | 직업 (occupational, Vocation, vocational). (various references) | |
Manx | gerrym (call of bird, crow of cock, crowing, mission, outcry, shouting, vocation, whoop, whooping). (various references) | |
Norwegian | yrke. (various references) | |
Papiamen | profeshon. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ofessionpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | profissão (calling, career, craft, fraternity, handicraft, metier, pursuit, work). (various references) | |
Romanian | profesiune (career, metier, occupation, trade, vocation, walk of life), ocupaţie (activity, business, duty, employment, engagement, holding, job, metier, occupation, situation, trade, work), mãrturisire (admission, avouchment, avowal, confession, confidence, recognizance), confesiune (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, admission, avowal, communion, confession, denomination), actorii. (various references) | |
Romansch | professiun. (various references) | |
Russian | профессия (avocation, calling, career, metier, occupation, trade, vocation, walk of life, walks of life, working status). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | profesija (occupation, vocation), poziv (avocation, call, call up, invitation, notification, summons, vocation), zanimanje (avocation, business, calling, interest, vocation), struka (bailiwick, field, metier, strand, vocation). (various references) | |
Spanish | profesión (business, calling, career, line, occupation, pursuit, trade, walks of life), oficio (career, career office, craft, enterprise, function, handicraft, job, mass, metier, occupation, office, pantry, place, position, post, role, service, skill, trade, walks of life), ocupación (avocation, emplacement, employment, encroachment, job, line, occupancy, occupation, pursuit, sit in, tenure, usurpation, work). (various references) | |
Swedish | yrke (branch, business, calling, compartment, craft, department, occupation, pigeonhole, racket, section, speciality, trade, vocation), profession, bekännelse (acknowledgement, admission, avowal, cognizance, confession, creed, religion). (various references) | |
Turkish | yemin (adjuration, attestation, oath, sacrament, vow), uzmanlık alanı (province), uğraşı (occupation, pursuit, vocation), uğraş (avocation, employment, endeavor, endeavour, engagement, exertion, occupation, resource, struggle, toil, tug, wrestle), sanat (art, artifice, craft, trade), meslek (avocation, calling, career, game, ism, job, metier, path, professional, racket, shop, trade, vocation, walk of life), kelime-i şahadet, inancın açıklanması, iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), beyan (asseveration, declaration, pronouncement, recital, representation, statement, the thingsI'll declare, to declare), açıklama (account, clarification, comment, commentary, declaration, definition, direction, elucidation, endorsement, explanation, explication, exposition, gloss, hearing, illumination, illustration, indorsement, instruction, paraphrase, statement). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kesp, kдr. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ремесло (calling, craft, handicraft, skill), фах (calling, feat, occupation, speciality, specialty), віросповідання (church, creed, cult, persuasion), обітниця (pledge, vow), заняття (affair, affairs, career, engagement, lesson, metier, occupation, pursuit, school, trade, walk, work), запевнення (affirmation, assurance), професія (avocation, calling, career, metier, occupation, vocation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự công bố (annunciation, proclaimation, promulgation, pronouncement, pronouncing), sự b y tỏ (delivery, development, statement, voice), những người trong nghề, nghề (career, craft, stuff, trade), lời tuyên bố (announcement), lời thề tin theo, lời công bố. (various references) | |
Welsh | proffes. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | proceres, professio, professionem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Hebrews Chapter 10, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Katecwmen thn omologian thV elpidoV aklinh pistoV gar o epaggeilamenoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Teneamus spei nostrae confessionem indeclinabilem fidelis enim est qui repromisit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And holde we the confessioun of oure hope, bowinge to no side; for he is trewe that hath made the biheeste. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And let vs kepe the profession of oure hope with oute waveringe (for he is faythfull that promysed) |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word: |
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| Language | Hebrews Chapter 10, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | Sa walay pag-ukon-ukon, pangusgan ta pagkupot ang paglaum sa atong tinoohan, kay kasaligan siya nga misaad kanato; |
| Croatian | Èuvajmo nepokolebljivu vjeru nade jer je vjeran Onaj koji dade obeæanje. |
| Danish | lader os fastholde Håbets Bekendelse urokket; thi trofast er han, som gav Forjættelsen; |
| Finnish | pysykäämme järkähtämättä toivon tunnustuksessa, sillä hän, joka antoi lupauksen, on uskollinen; |
| French | Retenons fermement la profession de notre espérance, car celui qui a fait la promesse est fidèle. |
| German | und lasset uns halten an dem Bekenntnis der Hoffnung und nicht wanken; denn er ist treu, der sie verheißen hat; |
| Haitian Creole | Ann kenbe espwa nou genyen an byen fèm. Paske, nou mèt sèten, Bondye ap kenbe pwomès li. |
| Hungarian | És testök meg van mosva tiszta vízzel; tartsuk meg a reménységnek vallását tántoríthatatlanul, mert hû az, a ki ígéretet tett, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hendaklah kita berpegang teguh pada harapan yang kita akui, sebab Allah bisa dipercayai dan Ia akan menepati janji-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | maka biarlah kita berpegang tetap atas pengakuan harap kita dengan tiada menaruh bimbang, karena Yang berjanji itu setia, |
| Italian | Manteniamo senza vacillare la professione della nostra speranza, perché è fedele colui che ha promesso. |
| Maori | Kia mau ta tatou whakaae ki te mea e tumanakohia atu nei, kei ngaueue; he pono hoki ta te kaiwhakaari mai; |
| Norwegian | la oss holde uryggelig fast ved bekjennelsen av vårt håp - for han er trofast som gav løftet - |
| Portuguese | retenhamos inabalável a confissão da nossa esperança, porque fiel é aquele que fez a promessa; |
| Rumanian | Sq yinem fqrq wovqire la mqrturisirea nqdejdii noastre, cqci credincios este Cel ce a fqcut fqgqduinya. |
| Russian | 'Х"ЕН "ЕТЦБФШУС ЙУ ПЧЕ"БОЙС Х ПЧБОЙС ОЕХЛМПООП, Й'П ЧЕТЕО п'ЕЭБЧЫЙК. |
| Shuar | Yus tsankatramkattajnia nu shiir Enentáimtamu iniaitsuk kakaram ajasar tuke emetatniuitji. Yus tsankatramkaitji nuna umiktatui. |
| Swahili | Tushikilie imara tumaini lile tunalokiri, maana Mungu aliyefanya ahadi zake ni mwaminifu. |
| Swedish | Låtom oss oryggligt hålla fast vid hoppets bekännelse, ty den som har givit oss löftet, han är trofast. |
| Uma | Neo' tabahakai ncarumaka Yesus, tapangaku' kahi'a-na Pue' -ta, apa' Alata'ala mpopadupa' oa' janci-na hi kita'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "profession": professional, professionalism, professionalisms, professionalization, professionalizations, professionalize, professionalized, professionalizes, professionalizing, professionally, professionals, professions. (additional references) | |
Words containing "profession": interprofessional, nonprofessional, nonprofessionally, nonprofessionals, paraprofessional, paraprofessionals, preprofessional, semiprofessional, semiprofessionally, semiprofessionals, subprofessional, subprofessionals, ultraprofessional, unprofessional, unprofessionally, unprofessionals. (additional references) | |
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"Profession" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: profesion, Professeur, professio, professiol, professione, professsion, proffesion, proffession, proffsion, progession, Proiezioni, prosession. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "profession" (pronounced prufe"shun) |
| 5 | -f e" sh u n | confession. |
| 4 | -e" sh u n | accession, aggression, compression, concession, decompression, depression, digression, discretion, expression, freshen, hessian, impression, indiscretion, intercession, misimpression, nonaggression, obsession, oppression, possession, precession, procession, progression, recession, regression, repossession, repression, secession, session, succession, suppression, transgression. |
| 3 | -sh u n | facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, fission, abrogation, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition, action, activation, adaptation, addiction, addition, adjudication, administration, admiration, admission, admonition, adoption, adoration, adulation, advection, advocation, affectation, affection, affiliation, affirmation, affliction, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, ambition, amelioration, ammunition, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, apparition, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carburetion, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, circumspection, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, clinician, coagulation, coalition, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cognition, cohabitation, collaboration, collection, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commission, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, competition, compilation, completion, complexion, complication, composition, comprehension, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, condition, conduction, confabulation, confection, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crucifixion, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decommission, decomposition, deconstruction, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, deduction, defamation, defection, definition, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depletion, depopulation, deportation, deposition, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, dereliction, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, dietitian, differentiation, diffraction, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, discoloration, disconnection, discontinuation, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinfection, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disposition, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, edition, education, egyptian, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrician, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emission, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erection, erudition, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, eviction, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, extrapolation, fabrication, fixation, flexion, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fraction, fragmentation, friction, fruition, frustration, fumigation, function, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, geriatrician, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, ignition, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, imperfection, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, imposition, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inaction, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, induction, industrialization, infarction, infatuation, infection, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, inflection, infliction, information, infraction, inhabitation, inhalation, inhibition, initiation, injection, injunction, innovation, inoculation, inquisition, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspection, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instruction, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, insurrection, integration, intensification, interaction, interception, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intersection, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, introduction, introspection, intuition, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, junction, jurisdiction, justification, juxtaposition, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liposuction, liquefaction, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, logician, lotion, lubrication, machination, magician, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malfunction, malnutrition, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mission, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, mortician, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, munition, musician, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonfiction, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, nutrition, obfuscation, objection, obligation, observation, obstetrician, obstruction, occupation, ocean, omission, operation, opposition, optician, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overexpansion, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, perforation, permission, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, position, potion, precaution, precipitation, preconception, precondition, predestination, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, prefabrication, preignition, premeditation, premonition, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, production, profanation, prognostication, prohibition, projection, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protection, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaction, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recognition, recollection, recommendation, reconciliation, recondition, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, reconstruction, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reflection, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reimposition, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinspection, reintegration, reinterpretation, reintroduction, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejection, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remission, remuneration, renationalization, rendition, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, repetition, replication, reposition, representation, reproduction, repudiation, reputation, requisition, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, restriction, resumption, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secretion, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subscription, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, subtraction, suburbanization, suction, suffocation, summation, superstation, superstition, supposition, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, theoretician, titian, titillation, toleration, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transformation, transillumination, transition, translation, transmission, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, tuition, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, venetian, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, volition, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: poisoners. | |
-2 letters: erosions, poisoner, poorness, ropiness, snoopers, snoopier, spoofers, spoonier, spoonies. | |
-3 letters: erosion, foisons, frisson, noosers, operons, orisons, orpines, persons, poisers, poisons, prisons, profess, prossie, seniors, snipers, snooper, sonsier, sooners, spinors, spinose, sponsor, spoofer. | |
-4 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, foison, frises, infers, irones, noesis, noises, nooser, nooses, nosier, operon, opines, opsins, orison, orpine, orpins, osiers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: professions. | |
+2 letters: professional. | |
+3 letters: passionflower, professionals. | |
+4 letters: passionflowers, photofinishers, professionally, unprofessional. | |
+5 letters: nonprofessional, nonprofessorial, preprofessional, professionalism, professionalize, subprofessional, unprofessionals. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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