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occupations

Meaning of occupations

plural noun
  1. a job or profession.
    people in professional occupations
  2. the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force.
    the Roman occupation of Britain
  3. the action of living in or using a building or other place.
    a property suitable for occupation by older people

Middle English: via Old French from Latin occupatio(n- ), from the verb occupare (see occupy). occupation (sense 2 of the noun) dates from the mid 16th century.

Information about occupations

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of occupations is: occupation.

Hyphenation of occupations

oc-cu-pa-tions

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 letters.
  • occupations is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

occupations synonyms

Meaning a paid position of regular employment:

job

Meaning a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification:

profession

Meaning mental or physical activity as a means of earning income; employment:

work

Meaning a job requiring manual skills and special training:

trade

Meaning a person's trade or profession:

employment

Meaning a job:

position

Meaning a long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker:

post

Meaning a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; a state of affairs:

situation

Meaning a person's regular occupation, profession, or trade:

business

Meaning an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress:

career

Meaning a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation:

vocation

Meaning a profession or occupation:

calling

Meaning an activity involving skill in making things by hand:

craft

Meaning the ability to do something well; expertise:

skill

Meaning an area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences:

field

Meaning a principal administrative division of a country or empire:

province

Meaning a method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action:

way

Meaning a bat with a round or oval frame strung with catgut, nylon, etc., used especially in tennis, badminton, and squash:

racket

Meaning a type of activity or business regarded as a game:

game

Meaning a firm hold; a tight grasp:

grip

Meaning the state of being employed for wages or a salary:

employ

Meaning a person's home, especially a large and impressive one:

residence

Meaning the fact of living in a place:

residency

Meaning the fact of living in a particular place:

habitation

Meaning the action or fact of occupying a place:

occupancy

Meaning possession of land or property as a tenant:

tenancy

Meaning the conditions under which land or buildings are held or occupied:

tenure

Meaning a contract by which one party conveys land, property, services, etc. to another for a specified time, usually in return for a periodic payment:

lease

Meaning visible power or control over something, as distinct from lawful ownership; holding or occupancy as distinct from ownership:

possession

Meaning the action of using something or the state of being used for a purpose:

use

Meaning the holding of an office or the period during which one is held:

incumbency

Meaning an area of land held by lease:

holding

Meaning a house, flat, or other place of residence:

dwelling

Meaning the state of living in a particular place, especially during a specified period so as to acquire certain rights:

inhabitancy, inhabitance

Meaning the state of living in a particular place at a particular time:

habitancy

Meaning the state of living or being domiciled in a place:

domiciliation