Occupation
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Occupation may refer to:
  • Job (role)
    Job (role)
    A job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment. A person usually begins a job by becoming an employee, volunteering, or starting a business. The duration of a job may range from an hour to a lifetime . If a person is trained for a certain type of job, they may have a profession...

    , a regular activity performed for payment, that occupies one's time
    • Employment
      Employment
      Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as:- Employee :...

      , a person under service of another by hire
    • Career
      Career
      Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life ". It is usually considered to pertain to remunerative work ....

      , a course through life
    • Profession
      Profession
      A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain....

      , a vocation founded upon specialized training
    • Vocation
      Vocation
      A vocation , is a term for an occupation to which a person is specially drawn or for which they are suited, trained or qualified. Though now often used in non-religious contexts, the meanings of the term originated in Christianity.-Senses:...

      , an occupation to which a person is specially drawn
    • A category in the Standard Occupational Classification System
      Standard Occupational Classification System
      The Standard Occupational Classification System is a United States government system of classifying occupations. It was developed in response to a growing need for a universal occupational classification system. Such a classification system would allow government agencies and private industry to...

  • Occupying a space, either through force, by fiat
    Fiat
    FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

    , or by agreement:
    • Military occupation
      Military occupation
      Military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a hostile army. The territory then becomes occupied territory.-Military occupation and the laws of war:...

      , the martial control of a territory
    • Occupation (protest)
      Occupation (protest)
      An as an act of protest, is the entry into and holding of a building, space or symbolic site. As such, occupations often combine some of the following elements: a challenge to ownership of the space involved, an effort to gain public attention, the practical use of the facilities occupied, and a...

      , a political demonstration
    • Occupancy
      Occupancy
      Occupancy in building construction and building codes is the use or intended use of a building or part thereof for the shelter or support of persons, animals or property. A closely related meaning is the number of units in such a building that are rented or leased, or otherwise in-use...

      , use of a building
  • Television series that use this word in their titles:
    • "Occupation" (Battlestar Galactica)
      Occupation (Battlestar Galactica)
      "Occupation" is the third season premiere and 34th episode of the re-imagined American science fiction drama television series Battlestar Galactica. The episode was written by re-imagined creator Ronald D. Moore, and directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan. It first aired on October 6, 2006 on the Sci-Fi...

      , an episode of the science fiction television series
    • Occupation (TV serial)
      Occupation (TV serial)
      Occupation is a BAFTA Award–winning three part drama serial broadcast by BBC One in June 2009. It was written by Peter Bowker and has been produced by Kudos for BBC Northern Ireland.It took four years to bring the serial to screen...

      , a drama about the Iraq War
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