professional occupation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprofessionalandoccupation
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professional
adjective
uk/prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl/us/prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl/
relating to work that needs special training ...
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occupation
noun
uk/ˌɒk.jəˈpeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑː.kjəˈpeɪ.ʃən/
a ...
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(Definition ofprofessionalandoccupationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Some of these levels imply each other (for example, ethnicity, religion, and family), while others are discrete (professionaloccupationand family role, for instance).
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Pupils at independent schools were far more likely to come from families where the chief earner was in a managerial orprofessionaloccupation.
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I said that that was totally unrealistic and that it was to fail to recognise the nature of that kind ofprofessionaloccupation.
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They have used the term "insurance broker" to describe theirprofessionaloccupation.
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Perhaps we are inevitably moving towards membership of this place being just another middle-grade public sectorprofessionaloccupation.
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I cannot think that the vast amount of work necessary, a purelyprofessionaloccupation, could have been properly done by honorary accountants.
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It was myprofessionaloccupation, or whatever one likes to call it.
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Although doctors and lawyers and clergymen are so like in their ordinary life, it is rather remarkable that by reason of theirprofessionaloccupationthey should become so different.
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From an early age he had combined his studies and, later on, hisprofessionaloccupation, with his interest in writing.
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By this time, his mainprofessionaloccupationwas no longer comics, but illustration and design.
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The members appointed are assumed to have solid experience in theprofessionaloccupationwithin film or documented experience in assessing cinematic expression.
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Fifty-seven per cent of the fathers had professional occupations.
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This conversation was chosen because of the high quality of the transcription,7 and consisted of seven female participants, all in professional occupations.
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For the first group, 22% was employed in managerial or professional occupations, 37% in manual occupations, and 41% in semiskilled and skilled occupations.
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Moreover, all professional occupations, irrespective of the degree to which they are commercialized, obviously depend on demand for the services they provide.
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Welsh speakers also have proportionally high representation in the category "professional occupations," and there is a relatively large preponderance of non-speakers in the lower socio-economic class categories (p. 95).
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All these are manual occupations; there is no section for white-collar workers or professional occupations.
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They are the beginners in the managerial and professional occupations and the persons in middle management.
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It was only the remaining 14 per cent, who were occupied as domestic servants, textile workers, dressmakers, shopkeepers, nurses, teachers, typists, and other professional occupations.
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