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Occupation

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.

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Accountancy 76% connected

The art or employment of an accountant.

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Accounting 76% connected

of Account

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Appointment 76% connected

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

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Berth 76% connected

Convenient sea room.

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Calling 76% connected

of Call

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Career 76% connected

A race course: the ground run over.

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Catering 76% connected

of Cater

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Confectionery 76% connected

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

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Craft 76% connected

Strength; might; secret power.

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Employment 76% connected

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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Farming 76% connected

of Farm

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Game 76% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Medium 76% connected

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Office 76% connected

That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the rel…

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Photography 76% connected

The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Post 76% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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Preoccupancy 76% connected

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

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Preoccupation 76% connected

The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.

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Profession 76% connected

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

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Situation 76% connected

Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

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Sport 76% connected

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

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Trade 76% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Treadmill 76% connected

A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison d…

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Vocation 76% connected

A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Acquiring 76% connected

of Acquire

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Getting 76% connected

of Get

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Fill 74% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Fill 74% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Occupy 74% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Occupy 74% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Take 74% connected

Taken.

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Take 74% connected

Taken.

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Synonym 4

Business 92% connected

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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Job 92% connected

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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Line 92% connected

Flax; linen.

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Occupancy 92% connected

The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation.

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