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profession
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman professioun, Old French profession (“declaration of faith, religious vows, occupation”), from Latin professi? (“avowal, public declaration”), from the participle stem of profit?r? (“to profess”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???f???n/
Noun
profession (plural professions)
- A declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or pretended.
- Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.
- 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.
- My father was a barrister by profession.
- The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
- His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession.
- A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
- She died only a few years after her profession.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 27:
- Rosario was a young novice belonging to the monastery, who in three months intended to make his profession.
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Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin professi?, professi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.f?.sj??/
Noun
profession f (plural professions)
- profession, public declaration
- Toute profession d'incrédulité (...) sera poursuivie comme outrage à la religion et scandale pour les mœurs. (Proudhon, Révol. soc., 1852)
- profession, public declaration of faith
- D'une voix altérée, il prononça la profession de foi musulmane, comme pour se prémunir contre une tentation qu'il redoutait sans pouvoir la préciser. (Du Camp, Nil, 1854)
- profession, occupation, trade, craft, activity
- une profession lucrative.
- profession, practitioners of a profession collectively
- Ces décisions s'imposent à toute la profession, elles ne sont exécutoires qu'après approbation par le ministre.
Derived terms
- profession de foi
- professionnalisation
- professionnaliser
- professionnalisme
- professionnellement
- professionnel, professionnelle
Related terms
- professer
- professeur
References
- “profession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Alternative forms
- professioun (Anglo-Norman)
- professiun (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin profession.
Noun
profession f (oblique plural professions, nominative singular profession, nominative plural professions)
- profession; declaration (usually of faith)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (profession, supplement)
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traffic
English
Alternative forms
- traffick
Etymology
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *tr?nsfr?c?re (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic ????????? (tafr?q, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?f'?k, IPA(key): /?t?æf?k/
- Rhymes: -æf?k
Noun
traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication.
- 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
- Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.
- 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
- Commodities of the market.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
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Verb
traffic (third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
- Synonym: trade
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Derived terms
- trafficker
- trafficking
Translations
References
- traffic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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