occupation

occupation
Synonyms and related words:
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, take-over, takeover, 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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  • occupation — [ ɔkypasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • XIIe; lat. occupatio 1 ♦ Ce à quoi on consacre son activité, son temps. ⇒ affaire, besogne, ouvrage, passe temps. « Les jeux des enfants sont de graves occupations » (Barbusse). Elle a de multiples occupations. Vaquer à ses… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • occupation — oc‧cu‧pa‧tion [ˌɒkjˈpeɪʆn ǁ ˌɑːk ] noun [countable] PROPERTY a job or profession, used especially on official forms or for writing about the jobs people do: • Please state your name, age, and occupation. • The least stressful occupations in our …   Financial and business terms

  • occupation — Occupation. s. f. v. Employ, affaire à laquelle on est occupé. Importante occupation. serieuse, penible occupation. frivole, legere occupation. j ay assez d occupation. voilà une belle occupation pour un homme sage. quelles sont maintenant vos… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Occupation — may refer to: Job (role), a regular activity performed for payment, that occupies one s time Employment, a person under service of another by hire Career, a course through life Profession, a vocation founded upon specialized training Vocation, an …   Wikipedia

  • Occupation — 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • occupation — I (possession) noun ascendancy, authority, charge, command, control, direction, domination, dominion, influence, inhabitation, jurisdiction, mastery, occupancy, occupatio, ownership, power, predominance, predominancy, proprietary rights,… …   Law dictionary

  • occupation — [n1] profession, business activity, affair, calling, chosen work, craft, daily grind*, day gig*, do, dodge*, employment, game*, grindstone*, hang*, job, lick*, line, line of work, métier, moonlight*, nine to five*, play*, post, pursuit, racket*,… …   New thesaurus

  • Occupation — Occupation, lat. deutsch, Besetzung, Einnahme; Besitzergreifung an herrenlosen Sachen, die noch nie im Eigenthum gewesen oder wo dasselbe aufgegeben worden ist. Nicht so an verlornen Sachen, deren widerrechtliche Aneignung den Funddiebstahl… …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Occupation — Occupation, the the period from 1940 44 during World War II, when France was occupied by the German army …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • occupation — (n.) early 14c., fact of holding or possessing; mid 14c., a being employed in something, also a particular action, from O.Fr. occupacion (12c.), from L. occupationem (nom. occupatio) a taking possession, business, employment, noun of action from… …   Etymology dictionary

  • occupation — employment, *work, calling, pursuit, business …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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