Occupation

Noun

 * 1) An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid.
 * 2) The act, process or state of possessing a place.
 * 3) The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

Adjectives for Occupation
final; praiseworthy; trivial; illegal; congenial; intellectual	agreeable; youthful; earnest; disastrous; hellish; intense; unquiet; beloved; indispensable; triumphant; enviable; sedentary; remunerative; arduous; hazardous; breadwinning; productive; monotonous; strenuous; absorbing; profitable; dignified; various; useful; restful; savory; untidy; joint; undesirable; favorite; degrading; menial; brutalizing; solitary; prosaic; doubtful; unimportant; nightly; chief; ignoble.

Verbs for Occupation
absorb in—; chain to—; cherish—; choose—; comprehend—; despise—; employ in—; engage in—; escape—; follow—; lack—; postpone—; practise—; profit by—; pursue—; qualify for—; seek—; shun—; train for —; —contents; —enthralls; —interests; — rusts; —wearies.

Thesaurus
job, knight service, labor, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, living, lodging, lookout, management, mandate, manipulation, matter, metier, mission, movements, mystery, nesting, number, occupancy, operancy, operation, operations, oppression, original title, owning, performance, performing, play, position, possessing, possession, post, practice, praxis, preemption, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, profession, property, property rights, proprietary rights, pursuit, racket, requisition, residence, residency, residing, responsibility, rule, running, seisin, seizure, service, settlement, situation, skill, socage, sojourning, specialization, specialty, squatting, staying, staying over, steering, stopping, subjection, subjugation, sublease, suzerainty, swing, take-over, takeover, taking over, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, thing, title, trade, underlease, undertaking, undertenancy, usucapion, usurpation, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, vocation, walk, walk of life, work, working, workings, abiding, abode, act, acting, action, activism, activities, activity, adoption, adverse possession, affair, affairs, agency, alodium, appointment, appropriation, arrogation, art, assumption, bag, behavior, bondage, burgage, business, calling, career, career building, careerism, claim, cohabitation, colonization, colony, commerce, commorancy, concern, concernment, conduct, conquest, control, craft, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, direction, doing, driving, dwelling, employ, employment, enslavement, enterprise, execution, exercise, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, field, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, function, functioning, game, gavelkind, habitancy, habitation, handicraft, handling, having title to, hold, holding, indent, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, interest,

Synonyms

 * (activity with which one occupies oneself) profession, vocation, interest, employment

Translations

 * Arabic: وظيفة
 * Armenian: զբաղմունք,
 * Chechen: корматалла
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, beskæftigelse,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (apaschólisi)
 * Hebrew: תעסוקה


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:, , , , , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,  , gnìomhachd
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sysselsättning
 * Telugu: వృత్తి


 * Danish: besættelse, okkupation
 * Greek: (katálipsi)
 * Italian:


 * Polish: zajmowanie
 * Telugu: ఆక్రమణం


 * Arabic: حرفة
 * Armenian: օկուպացիա
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 占領, 占领,  占用
 * Czech: obsazení, okupace
 * Danish: besættelse, okkupation
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: okupatsioon
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: κατοχή (katochí)
 * Hebrew: כיבוש
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 占領
 * Kurdish: dagirî, dagirkerî ,
 * Polish: okupacja
 * Russian: