business vs profession

profession vs business

business and profession both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
business	Yes	No	No	No
profession	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, profession is a hyponym of business; that is, profession is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than business:

business: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
profession: an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

Other hyponyms of business include confectionery, sport, farming, land, biz, game, calling, career, vocation, employment, work, appointment, berth, office, place, position, post, situation, salt mine, treadmill, craft, trade, medium, metier, accountancy, accounting, photography, catering.

business (noun)	profession (noun)
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money	an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects	an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
the volume of commercial activity	affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith
incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect	the body of people in a learned occupation
an immediate objective
a rightful concern or responsibility
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
customers collectively
business concerns collectively

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