noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the caring professions
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Many of the caring professions are badly paid.
the legal profession (= lawyers )
the medical profession (= doctors, nurses, and other people who treat people who are ill )
the teaching profession (= teachers, or the career of teaching )
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Many of our undergraduates subsequently enter the teaching profession.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
caring
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Given the recent events in Orkney and elsewhere, promoting social work as a caring profession must restore faith in its activities.
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She was admirably suited to membership of a caring profession .
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After the cars came representatives of the caring professions and local charities.
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Disabled people are widely discriminated against in most types of employment including the health and caring professions .
learned
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In contrast to Hocazade, Civizade came from a very favourable background from the point of view of the learned profession .
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Besides muderrises and kadis, one other group within the learned profession deserves brief mention, namely the muftis.
legal
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The core of the problem is simply that the judiciary is the creature of the legal profession .
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This is a question that perplexes many outside the legal profession who do not fully appreciate or understand our constitutional rights.
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It was upon them that the legal profession focussed in the early 1970s in an attempt to improve its tarnished public image.
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Moskovitz speaks right up in defense of the legal profession .
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However, there remains reluctance and hesitation in some quarters of the legal profession .
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It is likely that in future further legal professions or professional bodies as appropriate will be added to the two lists.
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New York-based Martindale-Hubbell publishes an eight-volume guide to the legal profession which contains entries for 700,000 lawyers and 44,000 law firms.
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This is a quite extraordinarily narrow group within the legal profession .
medical
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The medical profession has known this for some time, though, so it's hardly hot news.
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Nor will limiting the rights of the people doctors injure cure the negligence of the medical profession .
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This surface interval between leaving the bell and entering the decompression chamber, became a point of contention within the medical profession .
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But the medical profession is not the only group targeted by the new seven-page plan.
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No pressure group within the medical profession is lobbying for the right to save men's lives by regularly examining the prostate.
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It not only is found among the uninformed but, unfortunately, also has lingered within the medical profession .
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Like the contagious diseases defeat, Simon's resignation was received as a serious blow by the medical profession .
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The medical profession was deeply divided over eugenics.
other
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Some former students have entered other professions such as librarianship or arts administration.
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They pass on about 13 years earlier than those in other professions .
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Certainly they compare favourably with those of other professions .
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The Committee will consider whether other professions should be added to this list as and when requested to do so.
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The other professions are, however, represented.
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It may also involve comparison with other professions and other occupations and not just with rewards within the organisation.
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Medicine differs from many other professions , however, in the huge amount of teaching expected from all of its practitioners.
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Graduates often enter other professions such as those of the actuary, accountant, and operational research scientist.
■ NOUN
accountancy
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There will be no outcry from the corporate sector about the disarray in the accountancy profession .
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On the other hand the accountancy profession has only contributed, to a limited extent, to improving commercial and professional accountability.
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For over a century the accountancy profession has built its reputation on three foundation stones: objectivity, integrity and competence.
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The bases and policies used by the audit should be generally acceptable both to the accountancy profession and to the business community.
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The problems faced by the accountancy profession are of its own making.
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Many proceed to the accountancy profession or financial institutions but a wide range of other employment is available.
teaching
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The teaching profession is in disarray, speaking with no coherent voice.
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And that the Department could make better use of the great store of experience within the teaching profession during the consultation process.
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In 1904 he left the teaching profession to become missioner to the deaf in Carlisle for the next thirty-one years.
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It is vital that the teaching profession has full confidence in the processes of career development and advancement.
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Despite her failure to enter the teaching profession , she's now published a book promoting phonetic teaching.
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Friends with children and those in the teaching profession all wanted to visit us then, in the school holiday time.
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I look forward to that beginning to apply to the teaching profession .
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But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack.
■ VERB
enter
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Despite her failure to enter the teaching profession , she's now published a book promoting phonetic teaching.
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Some former students have entered other professions such as librarianship or arts administration.
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His wife has never been active in the business and his only child has entered another profession .
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One way of entering the teaching profession in those days was by being a Pupil Teacher.
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The vocational course in architecture seeks to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to enter the profession .
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Graduates often enter other professions such as those of the actuary, accountant, and operational research scientist.
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Most first-year students want a programme which leaves open the option of entering the legal profession and of taking an honours degree.
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The medical students, in entering a traditionally conservative profession , were obliged to subscribe to conventionally repressive attitudes.
teach
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We also owe it to the teaching profession to have an evidence-based approach to school improvement.
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In general, unprofessional conduct refers to any action that violates the rules or ethical code of the teaching profession .
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The teaching profession seemed full at the time.
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There is no market system that allows the teaching profession to compete effectively in the labor market for the best college graduates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
follow a profession/trade/way of life etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'm a writer - that's my profession .
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In 1950, Jones entered the teaching profession .
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Many teachers are thinking about leaving the profession for more highly paid careers.
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She was surprised by Clark's profession of love for her.
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There are now a lot more women in the legal profession .
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There was a big demand for accountants in the 1980s, and many graduates entered the profession at this time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both professions are concerned with the application to commercial life of rules that often embody generalised concepts.
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However, it is vital that the therapist, whatever his or her profession , has received satisfactory training in such counselling.
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If the profession does not take up the challenge others will, and an opportunity will have been missed.
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In a profession where nearly everyone is always looking for a better job, Zampese is content.
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Marshall saw economics as a profession that should blend shrewd science with a devotion to people.
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These are likely to be professions like law, engineering, medicine.
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Touting for criminal business was and is well recognised within the profession , and those in close contact with it.