word-vault/dist/data/cards/oc/occupation.json

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{
    "term": "occupation",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a job or profession",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Please state your name, age and occupation below."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He gave up his occupation as a farmer and became a teacher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He left the army in 2020 and chose a civilian occupation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her occupation is listed as editor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The college provides training in a wide range of occupations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The people interviewed followed a variety of occupations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "service occupations such as cleaning and catering"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is your occupation full-time or part-time?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's harder to lose weight when you have a sedentary occupation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why is nursing still seen as a female occupation?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Jobs"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["full-time", "current", "main"],
                "verb + occupation": ["choose", "find", "follow"],
                "phrases": [
                    "list somebody’s occupation as something",
                    "a range of occupations"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the way in which you spend your time, especially when you are not working",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her main occupation seems to be shopping."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the act of moving into a country, town, etc. and taking control of it using military force; the period of time during which a country, town, etc. is controlled in this way",
            "sensetop": "under occupation",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Roman occupation of Britain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The zones under occupation contained major industrial areas.",
                    "contextForm": "under occupation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "occupation forces"
                },
                {
                    "text": "During the occupation, the church was used as a mosque."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The invaders have ended their occupation of large parts of the territories."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is the duty of the occupation force to maintain civil order."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The military occupation has created anger and resentment."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["foreign", "continued", "continuing"],
                "verb + occupation": ["begin", "end", "maintain"],
                "occupation + verb": ["begin", "end", "continue"],
                "occupation + noun": ["force"],
                "preposition": [
                    "during the occupation",
                    "under occupation",
                    "occupation of"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the act of living in or using a building, room, piece of land, etc.",
            "sensetop": "in occupation",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The offices will be ready for occupation in June."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The following applies only to tenants in occupation after January 1 this year.",
                    "contextForm": "in occupation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The level of **owner occupation** *(= people owning their homes)* has increased rapidly in the last 30 years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He intends to remain in occupation of the building for as long as possible."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The houses were judged to be unfit for human occupation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can only take up occupation once the tenancy has been signed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "illegal occupation of the building"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the conversion of big old buildings to multiple occupation"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["land", "illegal", "unlawful"],
                "verb + occupation": ["take up"],
                "preposition": ["in occupation of"],
                "phrases": ["ready for occupation"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɒkjuˈpeɪʃn/",
                "audio": "oc/occupation/occupation__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɑːkjuˈpeɪʃn/",
                "audio": "oc/occupation/occupation__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin occupatio(n-), from the verb occupare ‘seize’. Sense (3) dates from the mid 16th cent."
}