Noun

Singular occupation

Plural occupations

occupation (plural occupations)

1. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid.
2. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
3. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

Synonyms

• (activity with which one occupies oneself) profession, vocation, interest

Occupation may refer to:

In business:

• Employment, a person's job or work in service of an employer
• Profession, an occupation requiring specialized knowledge
• Vocation, an occupation pursued more for altruistic benefit rather than for income
• Career, a person's occupational history
• Day job, an occupation solely for income, while pursuing another preferred career track
• List of occupations
• Standard Occupational Classification System, developed and used by the U.S. government
• Occupational prestige, the relative esteem in which a particular job is held
• Occupational therapy, assisting people who have difficulty performing occupational functions
• Occupational science, the study of humans as occupational beings
• Occupational disease, chronic ailment resulting from work
• Occupational crime, opportunistically committed in the course of legal occupation

In a military context:

• Military occupation, control of a territory by a military force
• Law of occupation, portions of the law of war which relate to military occupation
• List of military occupations, notable historical instances of military occupation

In film and television:

• Occupation 101, a 2006 documentary film about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Occupation: Dreamland, a 2006 documentary film about the Iraq War
• Occupation (TV serial), a 2009 television serial about the Iraq War
• Occupation Double, a Canadian reality television show
• "Occupation" (Battlestar Galactica), an episode in the third season

In music:

• Occupation: Foole, a comedy album by George Carlin
• "The Beautiful Occupation", a song by the band, Travis

Other meanings:

• Occupation (protest), the temporary forceful occupation of a building, space or symbolic site
• Occupancy, use of a building for shelter or support of persons, animals, or property

Quotes about employment:

Sourced

• One of the best maxims in determining our course in life is, to select, at the outset, that in which virtue and principle will be least likely to be put to a test, and in which, from the nature of the calling, a man may bring around him such associations and influences as will be an auxiliary in keeping him in the path of virtue.
  • Albert Barnes, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 437.

Unsourced

• "The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him."
  • Jacob Appel, playwright, Arborophilia (2005)

• "Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life."
  • Carlyle

• "Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it."
  • Dr. Horne

• "Employers prefer to take honest people because honest people don’t take."
  • Leonid S. Sukhorukov

• "Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery."
  • Burton

• "Indolence is stagnation; employment is life."
  • Seneca

• 'It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor."'
  • Samuel Smiles

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