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Occasion   /əkˈeɪʒən/   Listen
Occasion

noun
1.
An event that occurs at a critical time.  Synonym: juncture.  "It was needed only on special occasions"
2.
A vaguely specified social event.  Synonyms: affair, function, social function, social occasion.  "An occasion arranged to honor the president" , "A seemingly endless round of social functions"
3.
Reason.
4.
The time of a particular event.
5.
An opportunity to do something.
verb
(past & past part. occasioned; pres. part. occasioning)
1.
Give occasion to.



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"Occasion" Quotes from Famous Books



... had occasion to remark on the curious manner in which two or three species of Alacacus and the Cynopithecus niger draw back their ears and utter a slight jabbering noise, when they are pleased by being caressed. With the Cynopithecus (fig. 17), ...
— The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals • Charles Darwin
... mother's pride. She has some reason to be proud of him. Guy has just received the gold medal awarded him by the Lifeboat Institution. Bax and Tommy have also received their medals, and all three are taking tea with the widow on the occasion. Lucy Burton and Amy Russell are there too, but both of these young ladies are naturally much more taken up with Tommy's medal than with those ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne
... itself anew, and he moved circuitously toward the object of his concern in as disinterested a manner as he could assume. At the sight of their host, the other members of Miss Maitland's group took occasion inconspicuously to drift away, being moved either by hunger or by good nature or by fear lest the monologue recommence. All but one obtuse youth who neither stirred nor displayed ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... occurred to her. But she didn't believe it had,—they hadn't the same butcher any longer. Meanwhile there was so little to do. It was too dark to read or sew, and she sat idly at the window looking out at the passers and the driving snow. Everybody else was in a hurry. She wished she, too, had occasion to hasten down for a last purchase, or to light the lamp in order to finish a last bit of dainty sewing, as she used to do when she was a girl. She seemed to have so few friends now with whom she exchanged Christmas greetings. Was it then only for children and youth, this ...
— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull
... Beauvais, while at Cologne the sloping bars are pierced with quatrefoils, and at Amiens with traceried arches. Both seem to me effeminate and false in principle; not, of course, that there is any occasion to make the flying buttress heavy, if a light one will answer the purpose; but it seems as if some security were sacrificed to ornament. At Amiens the arrangement is now seen to great disadvantage, for the early traceries have been replaced by base flamboyant ones, ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin


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