Synonym: activity, affair, business, capacity, concern, duty, employment, function, holding, interest, job, matter, ownership, possession, role, stint, task, trade, work. Antonym: rest. Similar words: occupy, accusation, participation, nation, operation, formation, equation, relation. Meaning: [‚ɑkjə'peɪʃn /‚ɒkjʊ-] n. 1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money 2. the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power 3. any activity that occupies a person's attention 4. the act of occupying or taking possession of a building 5. the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied.
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91. Further on around the bend there were no lights and no signs of occupation in the second row.
92. The firearm was perhaps a necessary item of defense in what was obviously a hazardous occupation.
93. The dock company went into occupation on 1 January 1984 and thereafter commenced operations.
94. Beyond the defended area, there are far fewer side-streets and lanes and occupation was concentrated along the main road frontages.
95. The freedom to become an entrepreneur or choose our occupation is a freedom of immeasurable value.
96. A buyer's occupation rights and fully paid share in the management company would be fully transferable, but only in combination.
97. The quotations go on in this vein for pages on end for every conceivable sort of occupation.
98. Pattern making is a highly skilled occupation and patterns can be extremely expensive to produce.
99. Today the once new but now traditional occupation of mountain guide is one of the most respected in the Alps.
100. Most sociologists faced with this particular problem have used occupation as the indicator.
101. When adjacency and multiple occupation are permitted, the figure becomes extrovert, expansionist.
102. Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long.
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103. The occupation regime was gradually dismantled, and sovereignty granted by instalments.
104. This Treaty took effect, and the Occupation Statute was repealed, on 5 May 1955.
105. Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. Jules Renard
106. Contractors are working hard to make certain all the homes will be ready for occupation as soon as possible.
107. Father's occupation and social class were coded by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 1980 classification scheme.
108. The use of spears is possible yet arguably a hazardous occupation more suited to hunting as a sport.
109. The book tells of the love between the daughter of a Cephalonian doctor and a captain in Mussolini's army of occupation.
110. The simple act of giving up a sedentary occupation brought about the improved the state of health.
111. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Thomas Jefferson
112. A friendly, confidence-winning manner is an asset because personal interaction plays a large role in this occupation.
113. His natural habitat is the graph, his occupation the computer simulation.
114. They acquired joint and exclusive occupation of the flat in consideration of periodical payments and they therefore acquired a tenancy jointly.
115. Subsequent occupation was represented by a large midden with a considerable amount of pottery.
116. To mediate in such a dispute was the dreariest occupation of a bishop.
117. Also, be prepared to make drastic changes in your occupation.
118. The resultant comparison with housework persistently branded it as a less enjoyed and less enjoyable occupation.
119. The final year of the Occupation did not fundamentally alter this status.
120. Gaston was a fishmonger who left evidence of his occupation on every hand he shook.
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