Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - profession

(professions) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A profession is a type of job that requires advanced education or training. Harper was a teacher by profession... Only 20 per cent of jobs in the professions are held by women. N-COUNT: also by N 2. You can use profession to refer to all the people who have the same profession. The attitude of the medical profession is very much more liberal now. N-COUNT-COLL: oft supp N