OCCUPATION

n. 1 job, position, post, situation, appointment, employment, vocation, line (of work), career, field, calling, trade, métier, craft, skill, profession, business, work Claverton pursued his occupation as a miniaturist for some fifty years 2 possession, tenure, occupancy, rule, control, suzerainty, subjugation, subjection, oppression, bondage Terrible atrocities were committed while the land was under the occupation of the Mongols 3 conquest, seizure, appropriation, take-over Francisco Pizarro was responsible for the occupation of Peru