Definition of Occasional

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Occasional

Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts.

Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a thing.

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Occasional Quotations

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Groucho Marx

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
Ted Nugent

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.
Payne Stewart

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
John Piper

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.
Maurice Strong

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
Dick Cheney

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
Anne Rice

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies

Occasional Translations

occasional in Dutch is toevallig, gelegenheids-
occasional in French is de rencontre
occasional in German is gelegentlich
occasional in Italian is occasionale
occasional in Portuguese is ocasional
occasional in Spanish is ocasional
occasional in Swedish is enstaka

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