Definition of Occupation

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Occupation

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.

That which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade.

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Occupation Quotations

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken

Occupation Translations

occupation in Afrikaans is beroep
occupation in Dutch is handwerk, beroep, ambacht
occupation in Italian is professione, occupazione, lavoro, arte
occupation in Latin is negotium

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