'occupation' definitions:
Definition of 'occupation'
(from WordNet)
noun
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line]
noun
The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power [syn: occupation, military control]
noun
Any activity that occupies a person's attention; "he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game"
noun
The act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal" [syn: occupation, occupancy, moving in]
noun
The period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied; "during the German occupation of Paris"
Synonyms of 'occupation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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