Dictionary entry details
• OCCUPATION (noun)
Meaning:
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
job; occupation; line of work; business; line
Context example:
he's not in my line of business
Hypernyms ("occupation" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupation"):
photography (the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies)
accountancy; accounting (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)
medium; metier (an occupation for which you are especially well suited)
profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))
craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)
salt mine; treadmill (a job involving drudgery and confinement)
berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)
appointment (the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed)
employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)
calling; career; vocation (the particular occupation for which you are trained)
biz; game (your occupation or line of work)
farming; land (agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life)
sport (the occupation of athletes who compete for pay)
confectionery (the occupation and skills of a confectioner)
catering (providing food and services)
Meaning:
The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
military control; occupation
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)
Meaning:
Any activity that occupies a person's attention
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game
Hypernyms ("occupation" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Meaning:
The act of occupying or taking possession of a building
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
moving in; taking possession; occupancy; occupation
Context example:
occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal
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)
Meaning:
The period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
during the German occupation of Paris
Hypernyms ("occupation" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
