| noun | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money “he's not in my line of business” |
| noun | the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power |
| noun | any activity that occupies a person's attention “he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game” |
| noun | the act of occupying or taking possession of a building “occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal” |
| noun | the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied “during the German occupation of Paris” |
| occupy | verb | consume all of one's attention or time |
| occupant | noun | someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there |