learned profession

collocation in English

meaningsoflearnedandprofession

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learned
adjective
uk
/lɜːnd/us
/lɝːnd/
formal
A learned person has studied for a long time and has a lot ...
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profession
noun
uk
/prəˈfeʃ.ən/us
/prəˈfeʃ.ən/
any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill, often one that is respected because it involves a high level ...
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(Definition oflearnedandprofessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is a simple fact that apart from clergymen, who are shockingly underpaid, this is the least well-paidlearnedprofessionin the country.
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He is a member of alearnedprofession.
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I do not see any necessity therefore to have a member of thelearnedprofessionto discuss the question of farm workers' wages.
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I want to see every child of ability able to enter alearnedprofession.
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We as doctors are watching with great interest and enthusiasm the development of the ophthalmic opticians as alearnedprofession.
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But, after all, there are many problems with which universities have to deal which have little or nothing to do with thelearnedprofession.
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That is a most monstrous charge to make against a member of alearnedprofessionconducting a case on behalf of the prosecution.
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It is alearnedprofessionand it should, like all other learned professions, be self-governing.
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If the teachers want to become alearnedprofession, they must cultivate an outlook which is based less on expediency and more on professional considerations.
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What is his avenue to alearnedprofession?
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They have been bullied in a way and, treated in a manner in which no greatlearnedprofessionought to be treated.
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They are at or near the head of thelearnedprofessionwhich they adorn.
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I cannot think of any otherlearnedprofessionof which the same thing can be said.
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This is a matter of law reform which, rather peculiarly from the point of view of mylearnedprofession, is not an esoteric topic.
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How can these laymen determine questions of policy confronting alearnedprofessionwhich gets more technical every year?
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I made no reflection whatever upon thelearnedprofessionof the law.
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Furthermore, can she tell me whether thatlearnedprofessionhas done anything to promote its own interests?
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Is it not more in the nature of a profession, and rapidly becoming alearnedprofession?
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They are members of alearnedprofession.
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The dentists are rapidly raising themselves to the status of alearnedprofession, and they are very keen to drive out those who are unworthy or unqualified.
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