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learned profession

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noun

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


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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

He was one of those men who carry in their own personality the prestige of a race, a nation, and a learned profession.

From Command by William McFee

Neither a priest nor a deacon could sit in Parliament, or enter any other learned profession.

From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul

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