Definition of occupation

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Occupation (n.) That which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade.

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Laborer :: Laborer (n.) One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan..
Solitary :: Solitary (a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert..
Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..
Mister :: Mister (n.) A trade, art, or occupation..
Leisure :: Leisure (n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
Builder :: Builder (n.) One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason..
Father :: Father (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher..
Preoccupation :: Preoccupation (n.) The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession..
Virtuosoship :: Virtuosoship (n.) The condition, pursuits, or occupation of a virtuoso..
Dressmaking :: Dressmaking (n.) The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses..
Cant :: Cant (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation..
Forwarding :: Forwarding (n.) The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.
Maltman :: Maltman (n.) A man whose occupation is to make malt.
Stational :: Station (v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa..
Coopery :: Coopery (n.) The occupation of a cooper.
Possess :: Possess (v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
Various :: Various (a.) Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors..
Slater :: Slater (n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings..
Bucolic :: Bucolic (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil..
Stercobilin :: -ster () A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster..
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