occupation meaning
EN[ɑkjuːpeɪʃən] [ɒkjuːpeɪʃən] [-eɪʃən]US
WOccupation
- Occupation may refer to:
- Job, 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
FR occupation
- NounPLoccupationsSUF-ation
- 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.
- The act, process or state of possessing a place.
- The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
- The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
- 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.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- the Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979–89 occupation of Afghanistan)
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of occupation in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- fr occupation
- en occupations
- fr occupations
- en occupational
- fr occupationnel
Source: Wiktionary