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OCCUPATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of occupying or taking possession of a building
Example:
occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal
Synonyms:
moving in; occupancy; occupation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("occupation" is a kind of...):
acquiring; getting (the act of acquiring something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupation"):
preoccupancy; preoccupation (the act of taking occupancy before someone else does)
Derivation:
occupy (live (in a certain place))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Example:
he's not in my line of business
Synonyms:
business; job; line; line of work; occupation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("occupation" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupation"):
confectionery (the occupation and skills of a confectioner)
sport (the occupation of athletes who compete for pay)
farming; land (agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life)
biz; game (your occupation or line of work)
calling; career; vocation (the particular occupation for which you are trained)
employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)
appointment (the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed)
berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)
salt mine; treadmill (a job involving drudgery and confinement)
craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)
profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))
medium; metier (an occupation for which you are especially well suited)
accountancy; accounting (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)
photography (the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies)
catering (providing food and services)
Derivation:
occupy (consume all of one's attention or time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any activity that occupies a person's attention
Example:
he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("occupation" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Derivation:
occupy (consume all of one's attention or time)
occupy (keep busy with)
occupy (be on the mind of)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
Synonyms:
military control; occupation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("occupation" is a kind of...):
social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Derivation:
occupy (march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied
Example:
during the German occupation of Paris
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("occupation" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Derivation:
occupy (require (time or space))
occupy (occupy the whole of)
Context examples:
To work in a health occupation, you often must have special training.
(Health Occupations, Bureau of Labor Statistics)
My trifling occupations take up my time and amuse me, and I am rewarded for any exertions by seeing none but happy, kind faces around me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Like most lonely ladies, Lady Frances found her comfort and occupation in religion.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
NOTE(S): The occupation is determined by the Person.primaryOccupationCode.
(Person Occupation Date Range, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The date and time span specifying the start and end of a person's occupation.
(Person Occupation Date Range, NCI Thesaurus)
Occupations within the field of medicine.
(Medical Occupation, NCI Thesaurus)
A local name for an individual's occupation.
(Job Title, NCI Thesaurus)
Terminology used in Individual Case Safety Reports to specify information on an occupation of reporter, section E3 of FDA MedWatch Form.
(Occupation ICSR Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
A grouping of occupations and fields of study.
(Occupation or Discipline, NCI Thesaurus)
The exposure to potentially harmful agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation.
(Occupational Exposure, NCI Thesaurus)
