1. A vocation requiring advanced education and training; esp., one of the three traditional learned professions — law, medicine, and the ministry.
“Learned professions are characterized by the need of unusual learning, the existence of confidential relations, the adherence to a standard of ethics higher than that of the market place, and in a profession like that of medicine by intimate and delicate personal ministration. Traditionally, the learned professions were theology, law and medicine; but some other occupations have climbed, and still others may climb, to the professional plane.” Commonwealth v. Brown, 20 N.E.2d 478, 481 (Mass. 1939).
2. Collectively, the members of such a vocation.
