Occupation Occupation

Occupation - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Abode, Act, Acting, Action, Activism, Activities, Activity, Adoption, Affair, Affairs, Agency, Alodium, Appropriation, Art, Assumption, Bag, Behavior, Bondage, Calling, Career

Occupation may refer to:

  • the principal activity (job or calling) that earns money for a person (see profession, business)
  • the periods of time following a nation's territory invasion by controlling enemy troops (see belligerent occupation)
  • any activity that occupies an important portion of a person's attention (see fan)
  • the act of settling into of a building (see ownership)
  • the act of settling onto an uninhabited tract of land
  • the temporary forceful occupation of a (typically governmental) symbolic building, as a sign of protest


Example Usage of Occupation

cyclosity: I rated a YouTube video (4 out of 5 stars) -- NYPD beats and arrests students at an Occupation Solidarity March http://bit.ly/3raJpQ
PalestineToday: Haaretz: lobby supports Occupation, and therein Israel’s ‘moral, political, religious corruption’ http://ow.ly/E1LM
MrGladPortBlair: JAPANESE Occupation IN ANDAMAN http://bit.ly/2tsjLM (via @indiblogger)
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