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What is the verb for profession?

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profess
  1. (transitive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.) [from 14th c.]
  2. (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something). [from 16th c.]
  3. (transitive) To declare; to assert, affirm. [from 16th c.]
  4. (transitive) To make a claim (to be something), to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. [from 16th c.]
  5. (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.). [from 16th c.]
  6. (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach. [from 16th c.]
  7. (transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter). [from 16th c.]
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Not a day went by that she did not wish to go back in time to deny Nelson, and profess her true feelings.”
      “My point, Mr. Chairman, was that I do not profess to have the requisite expertise.”
      “Citizens of the country largely profess support for their leader.”
professionalize
  1. To make something professional
  2. To advance an occupation to the level of a profession.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He succeeded handsomely in his aim to professionalize the whole business of charity without losing its soul in the process.”
      “I think that it is recognized that there is a further need to professionalize the activities that they are conducting.”
      “We have been working hard to coordinate, streamline, and professionalize the management functions of the firm.”
unprofessionalise
  1. Alternative spelling of unprofessionalize
professionalise
  1. Alternative spelling of professionalize
  2. Examples:
    1. “He cautions against trying to professionalise everything as there is a lot to be learnt from traditional construction techniques.”
      “However, it also identifies the operational challenges and the need to professionalise the van sector.”
      “This is just a beginning in our quest to completely professionalise all aspects of the game.”
professed
unprofessionalize
  1. To make something unprofessional
unprofessionalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unprofessionalise
unprofessionalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unprofessionalize
professionalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of professionalise
professionalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of professionalize
unprofessionalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of unprofessionalise
unprofessionalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of unprofessionalize
professionalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of professionalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Some of the framers did apparently envisage that one day the National Guard and the Police Force would be professionalised.”
      “Syria's Kurds have succeeded because of their organisation, proper control structure, and professionalised fighting force.”
      “To that end, the European Crime Prevention Network should be professionalised and strengthened.”
professionalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of professionalize
  2. Examples:
    1. “On one hand, they are gradually desensitized by the increasing popularized and professionalized humanities.”
      “Auditing was increasingly professionalized and founded on concepts of prudence.”
      “At the end of the nineteenth century, anthropology and sociology were, like history, becoming professionalized.”
professes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of profess
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Carr often professes admiration for the sage detachment of the ancient Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius.”
      “This time he is actively hated by the leaders of the dispossessed to whom he professes his allegiance.”
      “He professes to know end-times revelation and seems omnipresent and omnipotent, virtually accepted by all.”
professeth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of profess
unprofessionalizing
  1. present participle of unprofessionalize
unprofessionalising
  1. present participle of unprofessionalise
professest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of profess
professionalizing
  1. present participle of professionalize
professionalising
  1. present participle of professionalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Hefzy called for regulating, streamlining and professionalising the entertainment production industry in the region.”
      “He has played an important role in professionalising and positioning the Building and Development division.”
      Professionalising the industry will bring benefits to both society and industry.”
professing
  1. present participle of profess
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Acknowledging that professing a liking for ska can be a rock band's death wish, O'Dell stands by their tastes.”
      “He did not step up economic liberalization, professing a policy of state capitalism.”
      “At solemn profession, I placed my hands in those of my prioress, professing to live my vows usque ad mortem, until death.”
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