profession vs job

job vs profession

profession and job both are nouns.

profession is not a verb while job is a verb.

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

As nouns, job is a hypernym of profession; that is, job is a word with a broader meaning than profession:

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

Other hypernyms of profession include business, line, line of work, occupation.

profession (noun)	job (noun)
an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)	the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion	a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith	a crime (especially a robbery)
the body of people in a learned occupation	a damaging piece of work
	the responsibility to do something
	the performance of a piece of work
	a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
	an object worked on; a result produced by working
	(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
	a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

profession (verb)	job (verb)
	invest at a risk
	work occasionally
	profit privately from public office and official business
	arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Difference between profession and job

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