learned profession

American  

noun

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

---

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

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

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

It would be supposed that the men of the learned profession were the men who work for something beside money.

From Silver Links by Various

He might not practise any learned profession, nor teach a school, nor send his children to school at home or abroad.

From A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland by Parmele, Mary Platt