Noun

(en noun)

A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.

She died only a few years after her profession .

* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 27:

Rosario was a young novice belonging to the monastery, who in three months intended to make his profession .

A declaration of belief, faith or of one's opinion.

Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.

An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.

My father was a barrister by profession .

The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession .

Noun

(wikipedia possession) (en noun)

Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.

Something that is owned.

The car quickly became his most prized possession .

I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.

Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.

The car is in my possession .

I'm in possession of the car.

A territory under the rule of another country.

Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .

The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.

Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .

* Shakespeare

How long hath this possession held the man?

(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.

The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence.}}

(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.

Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.