What is the meanining of occupation?

Answer 1

Depending on the context, "occupation" can mean job, profession, work, trade, employment, position, post, situation, business, career, field, métier, vocation, calling, craft, pastime, activity, hobby, pursuit, interest, entertainment, recreation, amusement, diversion, divertissement, residence, residency, habitation, inhabitation, occupancy, tenancy, tenure, lease, possession; conquest, capture, invasion, seizure, takeover, annexation, overrunning, subjugation, subjection, appropriation, colonization, rule, control, possession, suzerainty.

Answer 2

To occupy. I occupied the house.

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Where the word occupation refers to an action rather than what someone does as a job, the associated verb would be:

(I, you, they, we) occupy

(he, she, it) occupies

occupied (past tense)

will occupy (future tense)

Answer 3

a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living