profession, vocation; employment; business; work
act of forcefully taking possession of an area, seizure; conquest; possession or settlement of land
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Occupation Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Occupation Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(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; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
(n.)
That which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThat which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade.
occupation
\oc`cu*pa"tion\ (?), n. [l. occupatio: cf.f. occupation.]
1. the act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
2. that which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade. absence of occupation is not rest.
occupation
bridge (engin.), a bridge connecting the parts of an estate separated by a railroad, a canal, or an ordinary road.
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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
Occupation Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
A set of activities or tasks that employees are paid to perform. Employees that perform essentially the same tasks are in the same occupation, whether or not they are in the same industry. Some occupations are concentrated in a few particular industries, other occupations are found in the majority of industries.
© U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOccupation Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Occupation may refer to:
- Job (role), a regular activity performed for payment, that occupies one's time
- 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 Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries
1. Placement of a rook or queen on a rank or file, or a bishop or queen on a diagonal, to exert control over it.
2. Placement of a piece safely on a square to exert pressure from it.
2. Placement of a piece safely on a square to exert pressure from it.
