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occupation Definition

oc·cu·pa·tion (äk′yo̵̅o̅ pā′s̸hən, -yə-)

noun

  1. an occupying or being occupied; specif., the seizure and control of a country or area by military forces
  2. that which chiefly engages one's time; (one's) trade, profession, or business

Etymology: OFr < L occupatio

occupation Related Forms
oc′·cu·pa′·tional adjective oc′·cu·pa′·tion·ally adverb
occupation Synonyms

occupation

n.

  1. The act of occupying

    seizure, entering, invasion; see attack 1, capture.

  2. A vocation

    calling, affair, chosen work; see job 1, profession 1, trade 2.

  3. The state of being in possession

    control, use, rule; see ownership, title 2.

occupation Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • Ruhr: The occupation of the Ruhr will continue ' in the meantime ' , but it will be covered up and mitigated by an agreement.
  • hereditament: The considerable range of administrative work undertaken by police forces may in some cases lead to occupation of ordinary office hereditaments.
  • premise: For the avoidance of doubt the Client shall be responsible for any public liability arising from occupation of the premises.
  • land: The entire account is of military battles being fought; there was no peaceful occupation of the land at any time.

Converse of object

  • resist: They are giving their lives to resist the occupation.
  • end: Roman occupation ended in the fifth century followed by the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons.

Adjective modifier

  • Nazi: Fashion moguls with such leanings could not have survived Nazi occupation.
  • multiple: Planning consent may be required if the property is to be used for multiple occupation, and you may need to consider disabled access.
  • reserved: Women who were already working in a reserved occupation, such as railroad clerks, were exempt.
  • non-manual: White Collar A term used to describe people in non-manual occupations including office workers and the professions, such as the law.

Modifies a noun

  • debris: Discussion The charcoal assemblage is in keeping with domestic occupation debris, probably from hearth waste.

Noun used with modifier

  • researching: Health Service manager Researching occupations - Need to find out more about a type of job?
  • seven-month: He served as governor of Kuwait during Iraq's seven-month occupation of the emirate in 1990-1991.
  • shortage: Obtaining a work permit is more straightforward where the job is listed as a " shortage occupation " .
  • owner: Now, the government agrees owner occupation is the only way forward.
  • factory: A government headed by Leon Blum of the Socialist Party took office on 2 June amidst a wave of strikes and factory occupations.
occupation Quotes

We cannot help ourselves.We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.You are forced on exertion.You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

—Austen,Jane

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldöin fugitive dreams and illusions.

—Quennell, Sir Peter Courtney

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor; ask anybody, particularly the critics.

—Mature,Victor

They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen† Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.

—Smollett,Tobias George

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

—Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

—DeVoto, Bernard

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

—Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man. It renders the body a more perfect instrument of the soul and at the same time makes the soul itself a finer instrument of the whole man in seeking forTruth and in transmitting it to others. In this way it helps a man to reach that End to which all other ends are subordinate, the service and the greater glory of his Creator.

—Pius XII real name Eugenio Pacelli