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occupationally Definition


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occupation
noun
    1. A person's job or profession.
      Thesaurus: vocation, job, trade, profession, work, business, craft, calling, employment, line, pursuit, walk of life.
    2. An activity that occupies a person's attention or free time, etc.
    3. The act of occupying or state of being occupied.
      Example: the terrorists' occupation of the embassy
      Thesaurus: attack, capture, seizure, invasion, takeover, control.
    4. The period of time during which a town, house, etc is occupied.
      Thesaurus: ownership, occupancy, holding.
    5. The act of taking and keeping control of a foreign country by military power.
Derivative: occupational
adj
    Related to or caused by a person's job.
      Example: occupational pension
      Example: occupational disease
      Thesaurus: vocational, professional, career, technical, official, workaday, industrial.
Derivative: occupationally
adverb
    Etymology: 16c: from Latin occupatio seizing.



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