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Occupation

noun

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money. Synonyms: business, job, line, line of work.

The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power. Synonym: military control.

Any activity that occupies a person's attention.

The act of occupying or taking possession of a building. Synonyms: moving in, occupancy.

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

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"Occupation" Quotes from Famous Books

... forces—the power of the Bishop in each town and district, the growing independence of the few and immensely rich great landowners, the occupation of the Palatium and its official machinery by the chieftains of the old auxiliary forces—Western Europe, slowly, very slowly, shifted its ...

— Europe and the Faith - "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" • Hilaire Belloc

... Hispaniola the adventurers found plenty of real occupation awaiting them. The little colony which the Admiral had left at Navidad on his first voyage had been wiped out. The natives timidly explained that a fierce chief from the interior, Caonaba, had killed or captured all the forty men of ...

— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey

... him, the tears stood in her eyes, and the little fellow knew that everything was not right. And there she sat till about two, doing little odds and ends of things for the children, and allowing that occupation to stand as an excuse to her for not commencing her letter. But then there remained only two hours to her, and it might be that the letter would be difficult in the writing—would require thought and changes, and must needs ...

— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope

... New York society man. Just as they come to know each other, Fate steps in and renders them both penniless by wrecking the great firm in which their fortunes are invested. How the idle young man, without occupation or profession, is moved to swing about and take up the business of life in dead earnest is told with the brilliance and animation which are Mr. Chambers's chief assets. "Perhaps there are some people who ...

— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

... the will of the commanding officer, it may be his will to have it applied, so far as ordinary matters of litigation are concerned, by courts. For that purpose, when in occupation of enemy's territory, he may allow the courts previously existing under the government of the enemy to continue in the exercise of their functions as his temporary representatives; or he can institute new tribunals of local ...

— The American Judiciary • Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

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