noble profession

collocation in English

meaningsofnobleandprofession

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noble
adjective
uk
/ˈnəʊ.bəl/us
/ˈnoʊ.bəl/
moral in an honest, brave, and ...
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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 ofnobleandprofessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A great deal of money is being spent to publicise thisnobleprofession.
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They are central to the lives of all our children and teaching is anobleprofession.
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We should not take advantage of those who have entered such anobleprofessionas nursing, which many enter from a sense of vocation.
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This is anobleprofessionand a noble industry.
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I have always regarded nursing as a verynobleprofession.
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Their livelihood, their profession —and it is anobleprofession—is at stake in this matter.
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It has been said that teaching is anobleprofession.
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Of course, one must take into account the views of a stillnobleprofession.
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One sees some of that as one moves among those working in thisnobleprofession.
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There is anobleprofessionof chartered surveyors.
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They behave with scrupulous integrity and serve anobleprofessionwith dignity, ability and zeal.
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Everybody speaks highly of nurses, who are the mostnobleprofessionthat has ever come into existence.
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Would be it that all other professions were as conscientious as those who work in thisnobleprofession.
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Let no one forget that it is a great andnobleprofession.
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By destroying the flourishing andnobleprofessionof game- keeper, you would be destroying the equallynobleprofessionof the poacher.
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Will he not commit himself to some expression of sympathy towards these retired members of anobleprofession?
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It needs no words of mine to emphasise that this is anobleprofession.
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It is anobleprofessionto look after the house and bring up children and it should on no account be criticised.
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I agree that nursing is anobleprofession, but what should a nurse do if he or she disagrees strongly with proposed treatment?
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I want this profession to remain anobleprofession.
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