English English Dictionary

profession in English:

1. professional

Be professional about it.

Professional writers do not have a regular income.

A professional thief can jimmy a car door in no time.

Playing country-western music on guitar is real kid stuff to a true professional.

To become a professional banjo player, you need to spend thousands of hours practicing.

Because of his great professional skill, the lawyer has a large number of clients.

They are professionals. They know what they're doing, just let them get on with it.

The musical instruments and parts are completely professional quality! And yet the prices are lower than anywhere!

Mary was very impressed with the professional appearance of her new outfit.

You play the guitar quite like a professional, don't you?

The point we must clarify here is that the lines between amateur and professional in sport are beginning to disappear.

This is where it is vital for staff to have professional training.

You should get some professional advice about your finances. a professional athlete/musician, a professional attitude He looks very professional in that suit.

I must tell you that Dr Bruner is a very respected professional.

English word "profession"(professional) occurs in sets:

Los sufijos más utilizados en inglés
Opposites and Suffixes

2. trade

Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001.

trade in

The three organizations are the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

Never mind that. After all up till now he's stuffed himself on huge profit selling high brand-name goods of no real worth. From now on he can just try his best at honest trade.

Soon after graduating from trade school, Ray Murphy was taken on as a machinist at the local automobile plant.

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Goods are the great travelers over the earth's surface, far more than humans, which means that hardly an inhabited spot on the globe is untouched by trade.

Despite a large surplus in merchandise trade, the current account surplus is not so big due to a deficit in invisible trade.

Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.

A glance at Chart 2 will reveal that some of these trade cycles are very short-lived.

Parents also arrange marriages, which is a polite way of saying that they sell or trade their children.

You shouldn't trade your short commute for a nicer house a longer distance from the office.

Most of my family work in the building trade: my dad’s a carpenter, my uncle’s a painter and my cousins are both construction workers.

English word "profession"(trade) occurs in sets:

ang synonimy
ang synonimu

3. a job that needs a high level of education and training

4. an occupation one chooses for a significant period of life

English word "profession"(an occupation one chooses for a significant period of life) occurs in sets:

Most common nouns 251 - 300

5. a type of job that needs special training or skill

6. occupation

What's your occupation?

Don't discriminate against people based on nationality, gender, or occupation.

I like to do oil painting, but I don't intend to make that my lifelong occupation.

Her occupation is teaching.

My brother has no occupation now.

Mingle your joys sometimes with your earnest occupation.

Creative occupations, like music, sport or theatre bring pleasure.

She lived in Poland during the German occupation.

My mother's occupation was a shop assistant in a department store.

Teaching and medicine are more than occupations, they are professions.

In the space marked "occupation" she wrote "police officer".

When you fill in a form making an application for something or other, what does the question 'what is your occupation?'

The most popular occupation is that of a shop-assistant.

He is engaged in an occupation of his own choice.

7. vocation

Never choose a vocation just because it promises social standing.

Never choose a vocation just because it looks easy.

Never choose a vocation just because your friends are in it, nor refuse another just because your worst enemy is in it.

Don't push your child into any vocation he dislikes.

Never choose a vocation just because it permits the wearing of good clothes.

Never choose a vocation just because it is popular or sounds interesting.

He believed teaching was his real vocation.

I still don't know my vocation! My vocation is a teacher.

I feel I've found/missed my true vocation.

I don't have a vocation for it.

Mike really has a vocation for nursing.

teaching is my vocation

Jan has a vocation for teaching.

Your vocation seemed so strong when you first came to us.

I decided to make medicine my vocation.

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