occupation
(noun)
noun
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Similar word(s): business, job, line
Definition categories: act, activity
2. the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
Definition categories: act
3. any activity that occupies a person's attention
- he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game
Definition categories: act, activity
4. the act of occupying or taking possession of a building
- occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal
Similar word(s): occupancy
Definition categories: act, acquiring, getting
5. the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied
- during the German occupation of Paris