learned profession
Americannoun
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A. M. A.'s "legal talent" made it clear that they would take the tack that medicine is a learned profession, not a trade, and thus does not fall within the scope of the Sherman Act.
From Time Magazine Archive
He believes that lawyers and educators interested in training lawyers must reconstruct legal education so as to achieve a learned profession and the common good.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Nevada state legislature last week became the first in the nation to declare traditional Chinese medicine "a learned profession."
From Time Magazine Archive
They are educated people, to be sure, and were reared at divers academies, but they have very peculiar ways which go naturally with that learned profession.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
To support so large a family must have taxed the energies of the father to the utmost, even though no one of them was destined for a learned profession.
From The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)
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