Word Meanings - OCCUPATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. That which occupies or engages the time

Additional info about word: 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. 2. That which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade. Absence of occupation is not rest. Cowper. Occupation bridge , a bridge connecting the parts of an estate separated by a railroad, a canal, or an ordinary road. Syn. -- Occupancy; possession; tenure; use; employment; avocation; engagement; vocation; calling; office; trade; profession.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OCCUPATION)

• Avocation
• Profession
• calling
• lot
• employment
• vocation
• occupation
• business
• pursuit
• line
• Business
• Occupation
• profession
• transaction
• trade
• office
• interest
• duty
• affair
• matter
• concern
• Possession
• Holding
• ownership
• tenure
• Residence
• stay
• sojourn
• abode
• pernoctation
• dwelling
• location
• Station
• Standing
• post
• position
• place
• situation
• state
• rank

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OCCUPATION)

• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to OCCUPATION)

• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• 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. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS