how to pronounce profession

/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/

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profession is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of profession in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… success and failure in my profession and …”

meaning of profession

Profession is a job or career.

profession frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word profession occurs in english on average 30.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics profession can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that profession can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;