professions
- 1Plural of profession.
The fair brought together people from a dozen different professions.
Several professions saw rapid growth in the technology sector last year.
Note
The plural carries every meaning of profession, not only the occupational one. Alongside jobs and trades, professions can be vows made on entering a religious order, or declarations of belief and opinion. In that last use the word often hints at doubt: loud professions of friendship may be pretended. Professions of something are statements; professions standing alone are lines of work.
Despite all his professions of loyalty, he sold the company's secrets.
The novices made their professions before the abbess at dawn.
professions is a form of profession
profession, noun: An occupation requiring advanced education or specialized training, in which a person claims expertise in a particular field. Full entry
- Forms
- professionprofessions plural
- Spelling
- profession → professions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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