Profession vs Specialty - What's the difference?
profession | specialty |
A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 27:
A declaration of belief, faith or of one's opinion.
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.
The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
* Charles Kingsley:
(obsolete) particularity
* Shakespeare:
A particular or peculiar case.
An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
(legal) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
* Shakespeare
* Joseph Chitty
As nouns the difference between profession and specialty
is that profession is a promise or vow made on entering a religious order while specialty is that in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.profession
English
(wikipedia profession)Noun
(en noun)- She died only a few years after her profession .
- Rosario was a young novice belonging to the monastery, who in three months intended to make his profession .
- Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.
- My father was a barrister by profession .
- His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession .
Derived terms
* professional * liberal professionspecialty
English
Alternative forms
* specialityNoun
(specialties)- They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
- Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty , their pet subject.
- Specialty of rule hath been neglected.
- (Bouvier)
- Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.
