occupation

Other forms of occupation

plural

occupations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about occupation

What does occupation mean?

occupation means "the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in occupation?

occupation has 4 syllables: oc-cu-pa-tion. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˌɑkjəˈpeɪʃən/.

What is another word for occupation?

Close synonyms include business, job, line of work, line, military control. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is occupation a common word?

occupation is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with occupation?

8 words rhyme with occupation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.