occupation
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.
Noun 3 meanings
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.
The act, process or state of possessing a place.
The control of a nation or region by a hostile military or paramilitary force.
Etymology
From Middle English occupacioun, borrowed from Middle French occupacion, occupation, from Latin occupātiō, occupātiōnis, from occupō (“occupy, seize”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). By surface analysis, occupy + -ation.
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OCCUPATION at a glance
OCCUPATION has 10 letters and scores 16 points in Scrabble (O 1 + C 3 + C 3 + U 1 + P 3 + A 1 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 21 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,056 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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