Occupation синонимы на английском

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1. occupationnoun

   Synonyms:
   employment, vocation, profession, interest

2. occupationnoun

   An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.

   Synonyms:
   vocation, interest, employment, profession

3. occupationnoun

   The act, process or state of possessing a place.

   Synonyms:
   profession, interest, employment, vocation

4. occupationnoun

   The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

   Synonyms:
   vocation, profession, interest, employment

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. occupation

   A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one’s occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver’s craft.

   Synonyms:
   affair, art, avocation, barter, business, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, employment, handicraft, job, profession, trade, trading, traffic, transaction, vocation, work

   Preposition:
   The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. occupation

   Synonyms:
   employment, avocation, possession, usurpation, encroachment, tenure, calling, pursuit, trade, business, holding

   Antonyms:
   idleness, vacancy, leisure, abandonment, vacation, resignation

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. occupation, business, job, line of work, linenoun

   the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

   «he’s not in my line of business»

   Synonyms:
   personal credit line, occupancy, cable, business, billet, stemma, commercial enterprise, business concern, ancestry, byplay, agate line, business organisation, stage business, lineage, crinkle, stock, task, telephone circuit, clientele, seam, bloodline, course, crease, melodic line, air, channel, short letter, line of products, job, assembly line, contrast, problem, patronage, product line, business sector, military control, blood, bank line, tune, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, concern, melody, strain, dividing line, transmission line, moving in, caper, line of descent, chore, argumentation, logical argument, phone line, furrow, rail line, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, melodic phrase, line of business, pedigree, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, demarcation, subscriber line, origin, business organization, communication channel, telephone line, credit line, production line, business enterprise, line of reasoning, line of work, note, argument

2. occupation, military controlnoun

   the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power

   Synonyms:
   job, line, military control, moving in, line of work, business, occupancy

3. occupationnoun

   any activity that occupies a person’s attention

   «he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game»

   Synonyms:
   occupancy, moving in, line, military control, business, job, line of work

4. occupation, occupancy, moving innoun

   the act of occupying or taking possession of a building

   «occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal»

   Synonyms:
   tenancy, job, line, military control, moving in, line of work, business, occupancy

5. occupationnoun

   the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied

   «during the German occupation of Paris»

   Synonyms:
   occupancy, moving in, line, military control, business, job, line of work

Matched Categories

1. • Activity
   • Time Period

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. occupationnoun

   Synonyms:
   possession, holding, tenure, use, occupancy

2. occupationnoun

   Synonyms:
   employment, business, calling, vocation, AVOCATION, profession, pursuit, trade, craft, walk of life

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for «occupation»:

   occupancy, occupying, profession, occupied, tenure, occupations, occupational, occupy, moc, vocational, employment, reoccupation, incumbency, kuwait, professions

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How to use occupation in a sentence?

1. Edna Ferber:

   Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth… But amusing Never.

2. Le Drian:

   I note that Daesh (Islamic State) is retreating and that Daesh is retreating significantly, since Daesh’s occupation of Syria and Iraq, since the attempt to attack Baghdad in June 2014, I think Daesh has lost between 30 and 40 percent of its territory.

3. Chris Murphy:

   I don’t think you can say that the Syrian war wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the invasion of Iraq, but we certainly contributed to the ongoing mess in that region and inside Syria because of our occupation, our invasion, which after a set of circumstances, led to the development of ISIS. … I think we have a responsibility.

4. Andrei Senchenko:

   They tried to influence me and, what’s more, made me a definite proposition, that I should change my rhetoric and relationship to the occupation of Crimea, but I gave a clear ‘no.’.

5. Dorothy L. Sayers:

   A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

• حرفة, وظيفةArabic
• акупа́цыяBelarusian
• окупа́цияBulgarian
• ocupacióCatalan, Valencian
• корматаллаChechen
• obsazení, okupace, zaměstnáníCzech
• besættelse, okkupation, beskæftigelse, erhverv, arbejdeDanish
• Okkupation, Besetzung, Beschäftigung, BerufGerman
• απασχόληση, κατάληψη, κατοχήGreek
• okupoEsperanto
• ocupaciónSpanish
• okupatsioonEstonian
• miehitys, ajanviete, ammatti, työ, omistusFinnish
• occupationFrench
• gabháil, lonnaíochtIrish
• gnìomhachd, obair, dreuchd, cosnadhScottish Gaelic
• תעסוקה, כיבושHebrew
• कब्जेHindi
• foglalkozásHungarian
• աշխատանք, օկուպացիա, զբաղմունքArmenian
• pendudukanIndonesian
• occupazioneItalian
• 職業, 仕事, 占領Japanese
• ოკუპაციაGeorgian
• оккупацияKazakh
• 점령, 占領, 職業, 직업Korean
• pîşe, profesyon, hokar, meslek, kariyer, mihne, dagirkerî, داگیری, dagirîKurdish
• negotiumLatin
• okupacijaLithuanian
• okupācijaLatvian
• whakatāuteuteMāori
• окупа́ција, стру́ка, зазе́мање, зани́мањеMacedonian
• bezetting, bezigheidDutch
• okkupasjon, yrkeNorwegian
• okupacja, zawód, zajmowanie, zajęciePolish
• ocupação, tomada, trabalho, serviço, tomada de posse, empregoPortuguese
• занима́ние, завладе́ние, заня́тие, оккупа́ция, профе́ссияRussian
• окупација, okupacijaSerbo-Croatian
• okupáciaSlovak
• okupacijaSlovene
• sysselsättning, ockupationSwedish
• ఆక్రమణం, వృత్తిTelugu
• อาชีพThai
• окупа́ціяUkrainian
• chiếm đóngVietnamese
• 職業Chinese

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