A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training,
the purpose of which is to supply objective counsel and service to
others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from
expectation of other business gain.
The term is in essence a rather vaguer version of the term "liberal
profession", an anglicisation of the French term "profession libérale".
Originally borrowed by English users in the nineteenth century, it has
been re-borrowed by international users from the late twentieth, though
the (upper-middle) class overtones of the term do not seem to survive
retranslation: “liberal professions” are, according to the Directive on
Recognition of Professional Qualifications (2005/36/EC) “those practised
on the basis of relevant professional qualifications in a personal,
responsible and professionally independent capacity by those providing
intellectual and conceptual services in the interest of the client and
the public”.
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