About The Word Occupation

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Occupation

Occupation Meaning & Definition
Occupation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Occupation?

[n] the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal"
[n] the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
[n] any activity that occupies a person's attention; "he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game"
[n] the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
[n] the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied; "during the German occupation of Paris"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Occupation: business | job | line | line of work | military control | moving in | occupancy | taking possession

Related Terms | Find terms related to Occupation: 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 | takeover | take-over | 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

See Also | accountancy | accounting | acquiring | activity | appointment | berth | biz | calling | career | catering | craft | employment | farming | game | getting | land | medium | metier | office | period | period of time | photography | place | position | post | preoccupancy | preoccupation | profession | salt mine | situation | social control | sport | spot | time period | trade | treadmill | vocation | work

Occupation In Webster's Dictionary

\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. --Cowper. {Occupation bridge} (Engin.), a bridge connecting the parts of an estate separated by a railroad, a canal, or an ordinary road. Syn: Occupancy; possession; tenure; use; employment; avocation; engagement; vocation; calling; office; trade; profession.

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