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n. An activity that serves as one's regular source of livelihood; a vocation.

n. An activity engaged in especially as a means of passing time; an avocation.

n. The act or process of holding or possessing a place.

n. The state of being held or possessed.

n. Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces.

n. The military government exercising control over an occupied nation or territory.

n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.

n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.

n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

n. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use.

n. That which occupies or engages the time and attention.

n. The principal business of one's life; the principal work by which one earns one's livelihood; vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade; avocation.

n. The act of occupying or taking possession; a holding or keeping; possession; tenure.

n. The state of being occupied or employed in any way; employment; use: as, occupation with important affairs.

n. That to which one's time and attention are habitually devoted; habitual or stated employment; vocation; calling; trade; business.

n. Use; benefit; profit.

n. Consumption; waste.

n. Synonyms Occupation, Calling, Vocation, Employment, Pursuit, Business, Trade, Craft, Profession, Office. In regard to what a person does as a regular work or a means of earning a livelihood, occupation is that which occupies or takes up his time, strength, and thought; calling and vocation are high words, indicating that one is called by Providence to a particular line of work; calling is Anglo-Saxon and familiar, and vocation is Latin and lofty (the words are not always used in the higher sense of divine appointment or the call of duty, but it is much better to save them for the expression of that idea); employment is essentially the same as occupation; pursuit is the line of work which one pursues or follows; business suggests something of the management of buying and selling; trade and profession stand over against each other for the less and more intellectual pursuits, as the trade of a carpenter, the profession of an architect; trade is different from a trade, the latter being skill in some handicraft: as, being obliged to learn a trade, he chose that of a blacksmith; the “learned professions” used to be law, medicine, and the ministry, but the number is now increased; craft is an old word for a trade; office suggests the idea of duties to be performed for others. See avocation, 5.

n. the act of occupying or taking possession of a building

n. the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power

n. the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied

n. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

n. any activity that occupies a person's attention

"He has his money to take care of; a pleasant occupation, you may think; but, after all, an _occupation_, with all the strain and anxiety of labor, making more hard work for him, day and night, perhaps, than his neighbor has who digs ditches or thumps a lapstone."

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office    vocation    employment    possession    trade    profession    tenure    use    calling    avocation   

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employment    pursuit    labor    habit    possession    task    activity    amusement    affair    exercise