A Topical Dictionary: Search for occupation

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English

Pronunciation

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

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪʃǝn|-eɪʃǝn

Noun

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

Synonyms

(activity with which one occupies oneself) profession, vocation, interest

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}}

Czech: obsazení , okupace
Dutch:
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|occupation|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.