Meaning of OCCUPATION
| Pronunciation: | | `âkyu'peyshun
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | business, job, line, line of work, military control, moving in, occupancy, taking possession |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Definition: | | Occupation
A new account of the German occupation of France during the Second World War, written by a renowned British historian. Ousby describes the various reactions ordinary Frenchmen had to the German presence, and he examines the actions of those Frenchmen who engaged in active resistance to their conquerors as well as the far greater number who cooperated with the new regime. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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