noun
- The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
- usage: "he's not in my line of business"
- synonyms: business, job, line of work, line
- The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power.
- synonyms: military control
- Any activity that occupies a person's attention.
- usage: "he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game"
- The act of occupying or taking possession of a building.
- usage: "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal"
- The period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied.
- usage: "during the German occupation of Paris"
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