Usually means: Expertise and skills in occupation.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word profession:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. profession: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. profession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. profession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. profession: Collins English Dictionary
  5. profession: Vocabulary.com
  6. Profession, profession: Wordnik
  7. profession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. profession: Wiktionary
  9. profession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. profession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. profession: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. profession: Dictionary.com
  13. profession: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. profession: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Profession (disambiguation), Profession (novella), Profession (religious), Profession (short story), Profession, The Profession: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Profession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. profession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. profession: Rhymezone
  19. profession, profession (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. profession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. profession: Free Dictionary
  22. profession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. profession: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. profession: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Profession (religious), profession: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profession: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. profession: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. profession: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profession: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A declaration of faith.
noun:  (religion) A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
noun:  The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion; hence, one's faith or religion.
noun:  Any declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or (as now often implied) pretended.
noun:  A professional occupation.
noun:  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.
noun:  (collective) The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

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