Synonym: business, calling, craft, line, occupation, profession, trade, work. Similar words: avocation, invocation, equivocation, location, evocative, ratification, gratification, advocate. Meaning: [vəʊ'keɪʃn] n. 1. the particular occupation for which you are trained 2. a body of people doing the same kind of work.
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31. His real vocation was the river.
32. I fear, however, that Woodward's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering.
33. Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me.
34. Obtaining any professional qualification requires not only vocation and commitment, but also great investment in both personal and financial terms.
35. Her fate has taken her on a different journey, a route where the monarchy is secondary to her true vocation.
36. He was quite young when he decided he had a religious vocation.
37. That Storni accepted unquestioningly a poetic vocation for herself, clearly emerges from a reading of La inquietud del rosal.
38. They are hesitant about calling their sense of vocation as being in any way visionary.
39. The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Mark Twain
40. Nursing is hard work and often low paid, but for many people it is a vocation.
41. The notion of apprenticeship as an almost religious vocation survives best, oddly, in martial arts movies like Bloodsport on Showtime.
42. During his lifetime, the distinctive characteristics of his vocation had begun to dwindle.
43. There is now a need to rekindle the idea that teaching is a vocation which makes a whole series of complex demands.
44. I realize now that when I accepted the position of branch manager that it is truly an exciting vocation.
45. It's just that the vocation to the priesthood ... we need to be very prayerful about it.
46. Often these prophets saw themselves as reformers, who had a vocation to transform the religious vision of their time.
47. Charlotte Mason regarded teaching as her vocation from her early adolescence.
48. He thought he had missed his vocation and indeed he had.
49. Most of them left the ministry and moved to other evangelical outlets for their vocation.
50. Had vocation advisors been around they would doubtless have recommended a commercial future on the scientific side.Sentence dictionary
51. But my vocation might be to enter the convent here in Normandy.
52. As in the lives of many artists, illness revealed his vocation.
53. I liked what he had to say about law as vocation, and all the diverse possibilities a law degree introduced.
54. Although he wrote chamber and orchestral music, songs were his true vocation.
55. At times the yoke of his vocation was almost unbearable, although there is no indication that he ever regretted assuming it.
56. But they would've given up their vocation just to be free of you.
57. Scientists themselves have often drawn parallels between the experience of a scientific vocation and certain forms of religious experience.
58. But amassing wealth did not turn Maria into a frivolous woman; she started the family vocation of caregiving.
59. Our whole vocation is to transcend the baser instincts of the animal world and be stewards and not spoilers of creation.
60. Shortly before he joined the Jesuits he burned all he had written, as a sacrifice to his vocation.
More similar words: avocation, invocation, equivocation, location, evocative, ratification, gratification, advocate, vacation, education, equivocate, educational, fornication, indication, dedication, medication, publication, deprecation, supplication, edification, implication, deification, defalcation, application, vindication, altercation, intoxication, purification, confiscation, communication.