Usually means: Control or use of place.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. occupation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. occupation, occupation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occupation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. occupation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. occupation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Occupation, occupation: Wordnik
  7. occupation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. occupation: Wiktionary
  9. occupation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. occupation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. occupation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Occupation, occupation: Dictionary.com
  13. occupation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Occupation (Battlestar Galactica), Occupation (TV serial), Occupation (TV series), Occupation (film), Occupation (protest), Occupation, The Occupation (Star Wars Rebels), The Occupation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Occupation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. occupation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. occupation: Rhymezone
  18. occupation, occupation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. occupation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. occupation: Free Dictionary
  21. occupation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. occupation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. occupation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. occupation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. occupation: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Occupation (disambiguation), occupation: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Occupation (disambiguation), Occupation: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. occupation: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. occupation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
noun:  The act, process or state of possessing a place.
noun:  (geopolitics, military) The control of a nation or region by a hostile military or paramilitary force.

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