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occupation
Found in thesaurus: activity, social control, acquiring, getting, period, time period, period of time
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occupation
n.
profession, vocation; employment; business; work
n.
act of forcefully taking possession of an area, seizure; conquest; possession or settlement of land
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Occupation
Occupation may refer to:
- Job, a person's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment
- Employment, a person under service of another by hire
- Career, a course through life
- Profession, a vocation founded upon specialized training
- Vocation, an occupation to which a person is specially drawn
- A category in the Standard Occupational Classification System
- Occupying a space, either through force, by fiat, or by agreement:
- Military occupation, the martial control of a territory
- Occupation (protest), a political demonstration
- Occupancy, use of a building
- Television series that use this word in their titles:
- "Occupation" (Battlestar Galactica), an episode of the science fiction television series
- Occupation (TV serial), a drama about the Iraq War
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occupation
Noun
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
(synonym) business, job, line of work, line
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) sport
(derivation) absorb, engross, engage, occupy
2. the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
(synonym) military control
(hypernym) social control
(derivation) invade, occupy
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
3. any activity that occupies a person's attention; "he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game"
(hypernym) activity
(derivation) concern, interest, occupy, worry
4. the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal"
(synonym) occupancy, taking possession, moving in
(hypernym) acquiring, getting
(hyponym) preoccupancy, preoccupation
(derivation) inhabit, occupy
5. the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied; "during the German occupation of Paris"
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(derivation) inhabit, occupy
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occupation
nf.
occupation, conquering; tenure, appropriation; pursuit, profession
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occupation
n.
povolání; zaměstnání; okupace; užívání; obsazení; osídlení
