All occupation synonyms

noun occupation

• job — the central figure in an Old Testament parable of the righteous sufferer.
• profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
• work — Henry Clay, 1832–84, U.S. songwriter.
• career — A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life.
• livelihood — a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally; living: to earn a livelihood as a tenant farmer.
• living — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
• employment — The condition of having paid work.
• business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
• vocation — a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling.
• calling — A calling is a profession or career which someone is strongly attracted to, especially one which involves helping other people.
• position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
• post — power-on self-test
• activity — Activity is a situation in which a lot of things are happening or being done.
• affair — If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
• craft — You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
• do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• game — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
• grindstone — a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• lick — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• moonlight — the light of the moon.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• pursuit — the act of pursuing: in pursuit of the fox.
• racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
• slot — a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
• thing — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
• trade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
• daily grind — everyday work routine
• metier — a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
• nine-to-five — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
• rat race — any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.
• walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
• enterprise — A project or undertaking, typically one that is difficult or requires effort.
• task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• possession — the act or fact of possessing.
• ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
• settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
• habitation — a place of residence; dwelling; abode.
• holding — an act of holding fast by a grasp of the hand or by some other physical means; grasp; grip: Take hold. Do you have a hold on the rope?
• inhabitancy — place of residence; habitation.
• inhabitation — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
• occupancy — the act, state, or condition of being or becoming a tenant or of living in or taking up quarters or space in or on something: Continued occupancy of the office depends on a rent reduction.
• residence — the place, especially the house, in which a person lives or resides; dwelling place; home: Their residence is in New York City.
• tenancy — a holding, as of lands, by any kind of title; occupancy of land, a house, or the like, under a lease or on payment of rent; tenure.
• tenure — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
• title — a clause in the 1972 Education Act stating that no one shall because of sex be denied the benefits of any educational program of activity that receives direct federal aid.
• use — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.