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Dictionary Results For "occupation" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɑkjupe(ɪ)ʃən/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-occupation.ogg



Noun

  1. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid.
  2. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
  3. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.


Synonyms


Translations

  • Arabic:
  • Chinese: 职业 (zhíyè)
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|zaměstnání|n}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|bezigheid|f}}
  • Finnish: ammatti, työ, ajanviete
  • French: {{t+|fr|occupation|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Beschäftigung|f}}, {{t+|de|Beruf|m}}
  • Greek: {{t|el|απασχόληση|f|sc=Grek}} (apaschólisi)
  • Hebrew:
  • Hungarian:
  • Italian: {{t+|it|occupazione|f}}
  • Japanese: 仕事 (しごと, shigoto), 職業 (しょくぎょう, shokugyō)
  • Korean: 직업 (jikeop)
  • Kurdish: , , , , , , {{t-|ku|پیشه‌|sc=KUchar}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ocupação|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|занятие|n|tr=zanjátije|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|ocupación|m}}
  • Swedish: sysselsättning
  • Greek: {{t|el|κατάληψη|f|sc=Grek}} (katálipsi)
  • Italian: {{t+|it|occupazione|f}}
  • Greek: {{t|el|κατοχή|f|sc=Grek}} (katochí)
  • Hebrew:
  • Italian: {{t+|it|occupazione|f}}
  • Kurdish: dagirî , dagirkerî ,

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which occupies or engages the time and attention.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

3. Specfically: The principal business of one's life; the
principal work by which one earns one's livelihood;
vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade;
avocation; as, these days many people continue to practice
their occupation well into their seventies.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Absence of occupation is not rest. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]

Occupation bridge (Engin.), a bridge connecting the parts
of an estate separated by a railroad, a canal, or an
ordinary road.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Occupancy; possession; tenure; use; employment;
avocation; engagement; vocation; calling; office; trade;
profession.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet occupation
n 1: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn
money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: business,
job, line of work, line]
2: the control of a country by military forces of a foreign
power [syn: military control]
3: any activity that occupies a person's attention; "he missed
the bell in his occupation with the computer game"
4: the act of occupying or taking possession of a building;
"occupation of a building without a certificate of
occupancy is illegal" [syn: occupancy, {taking
possession}, moving in]
5: the period of time during which a place or position or
nation is occupied; "during the German occupation of
Paris"
Moby Dictionary
abiding
, abode , act , acting , action , activism , activities ,
activity
, adoption , adverse possession , affair , affairs , agency ,
alodium
, appointment , appropriation , arrogation , art , assumption ,
bag
, behavior , bondage , burgage , business , calling , career ,
career building
, careerism , claim , cohabitation , colonization ,
colony
, commerce , commorancy , concern , concernment , conduct ,
conquest
, control , craft , de facto , de jure , dependency ,
derivative title
, direction , doing , driving , dwelling , employ ,
employment
, enslavement , enterprise , execution , exercise , fee fief ,
fee position
, fee simple , fee simple absolute ,
fee simple conditional
, fee simple defeasible ,
fee simple determinable
, fee tail , feodum , feud , fiefdom , field ,
frankalmoign
, free socage , freehold , function , functioning , game ,
gavelkind
, habitancy , habitation , handicraft , handling ,
having title to
, hold , holding , indent , inhabitancy , inhabitation ,
inhabiting
, interest , job , knight service , labor , lay fee , lease ,
leasehold
, legal claim , legal possession , lifework , line ,
line of business
, line of work , living , lodging , lookout ,
management
, mandate , manipulation , matter , metier , mission ,
movements
, mystery , nesting , number , occupancy , operancy ,
operation
, operations , oppression , original title , owning ,
performance
, performing , play , position , possessing , possession ,
post
, practice , praxis , preemption , preoccupancy , preoccupation ,
prepossession
, prescription , profession , property , property rights ,
proprietary rights
, pursuit , racket , requisition , residence ,
residency
, residing , responsibility , rule , running , seisin ,
seizure
, service , settlement , situation , skill , socage , sojourning ,
specialization
, specialty , squatting , staying , staying over ,
steering
, stopping , subjection , subjugation , sublease , suzerainty ,
swing
, take-over , takeover , taking over , tenancy , tenantry , tenure ,
tenure in chivalry
, thing , title , trade , underlease , undertaking ,
undertenancy
, usucapion , usurpation , villein socage , villeinhold ,
villenage
, vocation , walk , walk of life , work , working , workings


OCCUPATION. Use or tenure; as, the house is in the occupation of A B. A trade, business or mystery; as the occupation of a printer. Occupancy. (q.v.) 2. In another sense occupation signifies a putting out of a man's freehold in time of war. Co. Litt. s. 412. See Dependency; Possession.
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