chosen profession

collocation in English

meaningsofchosenandprofession

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chosen
verb
uk
/ˈtʃəʊ.zən/us
/ˈtʃoʊ.zən/
past participle ...
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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 ofchosenandprofessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofchosen profession

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Ability to draw, a bright character and a desire to improve in theirchosenprofessionidentified further choice of the path.
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He resumed the practice of hischosenprofession.
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After they have successfully completed their exams, graduates are offered six months employment in theirchosenprofession.
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He was admired for his cultivated musical education and his complete respect for hischosenprofession.
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Toushin has been incarcerated twice (1988 and 1996) spending three years in federal prison for being in hischosenprofession.
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Where radiographers do not provide such evidence it would appear that they are at risk of failing to re-register and therefore lose the right to practice within theirchosenprofession.
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Few teachers had expected that theirchosenprofessionwould bring the financial rewards which are available in other sectors of the economy.
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That is no more today in the nature of theirchosenprofessionthan it was 50 years ago.
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She had to surmount a wall of masculine prejudice in herchosenprofessionand among her prospective clients, even among her own family.
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I know that he has already served with distinction in hischosenprofession.
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All of them have reached the heights in theirchosenprofessionand are showing us what can be achieved.
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A man who has done wrong and decides to go straight in the future is, by this order, debarred from participation in hischosenprofession.
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As an advocate, he was at the top of hischosenprofession.
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It was mychosenprofessionuntil, while practising as a staff nurse, tuberculosis struck.
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Will they do anything to help with new housing, employment and the retraining of the soldiers who would have preferred to remain in theirchosenprofession?
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I feel enormous sympathy and admiration for this doctor, whose humanitarian act clearly resulted in personal illness and risk to life and delayed his entry into hischosenprofession.
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It is a crying waste of talent and is often pathetically sad in human terms that such men and women must retire early from theirchosenprofession.
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It is not intended to finance students to undertake a succession of courses to reach the level of education or qualification which is needed to enter theirchosenprofession.
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We always remember that there is a career at stake, achosenprofessionat stake; and each case in which an individual is considered for barring comes for ministerial decision.
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It will also produce an environment in which people can enter theirchosenprofessionand look to it to give them a good quality of life and experiences.
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