English noun: occupation |
1. | occupation (act) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money |
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| Samples | He's not in my line of business.
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| Synonyms | business, job, line, line of work |
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| Broader (hypernym) | activity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | accountancy, accounting, appointment, berth, billet, biz, calling, career, catering, confectionery, craft, employment, farming, game, land, medium, metier, office, photography, place, position, post, profession, salt mine, situation, sport, spot, trade, treadmill, vocation, work |
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2. | occupation (act) the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power |
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| Synonyms | military control |
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| Broader (hypernym) | social control |
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| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine |
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3. | occupation (act) any activity that occupies a person's attention |
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| Samples | He missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game.
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| Broader (hypernym) | activity |
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4. | occupation (act) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building |
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| Samples | Occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal.
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| Synonyms | moving in, occupancy |
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| Broader (hypernym) | acquiring, getting |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | preoccupancy, preoccupation |
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5. | occupation (time) the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied |
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| Samples | During the German occupation of Paris.
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| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period |
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