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Other / work | | English term or phrase: occupation and professional | how to distingish the two words's useage?
please give me some information!thanks, |
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| | Do you mean occupation and profession? | Explanation:
Like Rita pointed out, the two words you mentioned are noun and adjective. However I suspect what you meant was difference between "occupation" and "profession", that is, both in noun form for comparison. If so this is my answer to you.
In everyday English, the former ("occupation") is any paid job a person do to making living. This does not necessary take high-level, long term training. It can be manual job or desk job (blue color or non-blue color workers).
On the other hand, profession is a job that takes very high level training so high school education alone is not enough (whereas many occupation(al) skills can be obtained at this level).
Three typical profession(al)s in modern society have been doctors, lawyers, and college professors. The last used to be "theologians" and it has historical background but this is not a place to go into the detail.
Now think about last one (professor). Why college/university level teachers are called professors but not teachers? Probably they have to go beyond undergraduate teacher's certificate level.
Can you see the difference between occupation and profession?
Lastly what is so confusing about these two English words are as follows: "Professional" ia a noun, whereas "occupational" is not.
By the way I firmly believe good translators are professionals.
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Woops! Correction. Contradiction in my explanation need correction. I take back what I said at the beginning. Both are nouns. But \"professional\" as noun (especially in singular) is not a very common usage. |
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4 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +6 noun and adjective
Explanation:
occupation = profession/job/career
professional = word to describe what one does in their profession
profession. Roget s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.
...Activity pursued as a livelihood: art, business, calling, career, craft, employment, job, line, métier, occupation, pursuit, trade, vocation, work
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1) professional. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1a. Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession: lawyers, doctors, and other professional people. b. Conforming to the standards of a profession: professional...
2) professional. Roget s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.
...Having or demonstrating a high degree of knowledge or skill: adept, crack, expert, master, masterful, masterly, proficient, skilled, skillful.
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