OCCUPATION


Meaning of OCCUPATION in English

/ ˌɒkjuˈpeɪʃn; NAmE ˌɑːk-/ noun

1.

[ C ] a job or profession :

Please state your name, age and occupation below.

➡ note at work

2.

[ C ] the way in which you spend your time, especially when you are not working :

Her main occupation seems to be shopping.

3.

[ U ] the act of moving into a country, town, etc. and taking control of it using military force; the period of time during which a country, town, etc. is controlled in this way :

the Roman occupation of Britain

The areas under occupation contained major industrial areas.

occupation forces

4.

[ U ] ( formal ) the act of living in or using a building, room, piece of land, etc. :

The offices will be ready for occupation in June.

The following applies only to tenants in occupation after January 1 2003.

The level of owner occupation (= people owning their homes) has increased rapidly in the last 30 years.

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WORD ORIGIN

Middle English : via Old French from Latin occupatio(n-) , from the verb occupare seize. Sense 3 dates from the mid 16th cent.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.