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The profession

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Definition

profession /prǝ'feʃn/ n ၁။ (က) [C] အလုပ္အကိုင္။ (အထူးသျဖင့္ အဆင့္ျမင့္ပညာႏွင့္ ကြၽမ္းက်င္မႈလိုအပ္ေသာ ဗိသုကာ၊ ဥပေဒ၊ ေဆး စသည့္ သက္ေမြးမႈအလုပ္)။ advising college leavers on their choice of profession ❍ the acting/ teaching/ dental profession ❍ enter/ go into/ join the medical profession ❍ She is a lawyer by profession. ❍ He was a man of 45, at the very top of his profession. (ခ) the profession [CGp] အတတ္ပညာရွင္။ The Health Service reforms are opposed by leading members of the profession (ie the medical profession). ❍ The legal profession (ie lawyers) has/ have always resisted change. ❍ JOB ၂။ [C] ~ of sth ေၾကညာခ်က္။ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုခ်က္။ a profession of belief/ faith/ loyalty ❍ His professions of concern did not seem sincere.

Examples

  1. The medical/legal/nursing/teaching profession
  2. [in a profession] : People in my profession have a duty to the public.
  3. [member of a profession] : We admit that a few members of our profession have behaved badly.
  4. [go into/enter/join a profession] : Her father discouraged her from going into the legal profession.
  5. The medical profession is always telling us we should exercise more.
  6. A profession of faith