Legal Definition and Related Resources of Calling

profession or trade ; an occupation .

noun

• activity
• business
• career
• chosen work
• concern
• craft
• employment
• endeavor
• enterprise
• field
• function
• industry
• job
• learned profession
• lifework
• line
• line of achievement
• line of business
• line of work
• livelihood
• living
• means of earning a living
• metier
• mission
• munus
• occupation
• office
• operation
• position
• post
• practice
• profession
• pursuit
• specialization
• specialty
• sphere of activity
• task
• trade
• undertaking
• vocation
• walk of life
• work
• Associated Concepts: trade or calling
• unlawful calling

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Calling in Historical Law

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What does Calling mean in American Law?

The definition of Calling in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A term for one”s way of earning a living broad enough to encompass everything except perhaps blue-collar labor.

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