learned profession

American  

noun

1. any of the three vocations of theology, law, and medicine, commonly held to require highly advanced learning.

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Example Sentences

The Nevada state legislature last week became the first in the nation to declare traditional Chinese medicine "a learned profession."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I tell you to make a man an accomplished gambler requires more study than to acquire a learned profession; more labor than is needed to become a deft artisan.

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll

I myself would like to see dressmaking regarded not merely as a learned profession, but as a fine art. 

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar