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Profession vs Traffic - What's the difference?

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Profession is a related term of traffic.


As nouns the difference between profession and traffic

is that profession is a promise or vow made on entering a religious order while traffic is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.

As a verb traffic is

to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

profession

English

(wikipedia profession)

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 .

    Derived terms

    * professional * liberal profession

    traffic

    English

    (wikipedia traffic)

    Alternative forms

    * traffick

    Noun

    (-)
  • Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
    • Traffic is slow at rush hour.
  • Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
  • * 1719 , :
    • I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
  • * 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 12:
    • It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
  • Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
  • Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
  • Commodities of the market.
  • * John Gay
    • You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.

    Derived terms

    * traffic boy * traffic jam

    Verb

    (traffick)
  • To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
  • To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  • To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

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