Converse of object

• foster: We need to foster vocations, particularly young vocations.

• pursue: Religious Ministries Website for Catholic men and women interested in pursuing a religious vocation.

• choose: We also provide some students with start-up toolkits to launch their chosen vocation.

• explore: In 2003, the theme, ' Teaching is for Life ' , explored the vocation to teach.

• encourage: We hope too that we might be able to attract young men to spend some time at Scalan to encourage vocations.

• promote: Vocation Sunday also sees the national launch of posters, leaflets and prayer cards to promote the specific vocation to the Diocesan priesthood.

Adjective modifier

• priestly: Fischer said, My priestly vocation, the source of my happiness, I owe to almighty God.

• chosen: You will need to attend a work placement in your chosen vocation.

• poetic: One may say of him, what Auden said of Cavafy, that his attitude toward poetic vocation was an aristocratic one.

• true: In the mission field he found his true vocation.

• divine: The Reformers gave great emphasis to the fact that each person's labor is a divine vocation or calling.

Modifies a noun

• training: Just over half of IT boffins say they wish theyâd learned on the job or done vocation training rather than gone to uni.

Noun used with modifier

• missionary: The strength of the experiential interpretation of the missionary vocation is also under-estimated.

Possessives

• word: But if you look for the use of the word ' vocation ' in an NHS document the picture is very different.

Preposition: in

• life: My vocation in life was to turn the hobby into a career.

• way: Many avocations don't assert vocations in a total way.

• sense: I think that academia is no longer necessarily a vocation in the same sense that it once was.

Preposition: of

• church: A vision seeks to identify the corporate and specific vocation of the church.