Any meaningful work for which an employee is reasonably qualified in terms of training, education, and experience.

An activity or pursuit in which a person is engaged; esp., a person's usual or principal work or business.

a work or business activity defined by the job that is done; a person's education, training, skills, and experience as defined in transition from project to project, job to job, or employer to employer while staying within the limits of the same type of work. definition of occupation defined definition of occupational transitioning defined

A cluster of jobs with common characteristics that require similar skills (e.g., photographer).

A category of jobs that involve similar activities at different work sites.

A cluster of jobs with similar tasks and skills performed at a variety of locations. "Teacher" is an occupation; "teacher at Sturgeon Falls High School" is a job.

(1) Identifies the nature of work of the employee; (2) Career Kokua file describing over 90% of the employment in the state of Hawaii.

a group of similar jobs found in different industries or organizations

A group of similar jobs or fields of interest that require specific training or expertise. Sometimes used interchangeably with “profession.” “Teacher” is an example of an occupation.

a collection of similar jobs

a group of jobs with similar responsibilities that require a common set of skills

a Japanese teacher

a job or career

a set of jobs, which involve the performance of a common set of tasks

a set of jobs with identical sets of tasks

a subgroup of a family which includes all jobs at the various skill levels in a particular kind of work

A type of job, e.g. teacher, clerk, chef, motor mechanic.

The job, trade, profession or type of work in which a person is employed for financial reward or as an unpaid worker in a family business. In this report the major group level of the New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations 1999 (NZSCO99) is used to classify people's occupations. The groups are: elementary occupations; trades workers; technicians and associated professionals; plant and machine operators and assemblers; service and sales workers; agriculture and fishery workers; legislators, administrators and managers; professionals; and clerks.

The trade, skill, or job performed by an individual or group.

A group of jobs having common or closely related responsibilities and duties, and occurring in representative industries throughout the country. Actual duties within an occupation may vary from one establishment to another but most areas are common.

a person's career or work

Generalized job or family of jobs.

Insurance companies often use your occupation, and the distance that you drive to work every day, to calculate risk.

An occupation refers to the kind of paid work performed. The kind of work is described in terms of tasks, duties and responsibilities, often including factors such as materials processed or used, the industrial processes used, the equipment used, and the products or services provided. Occupations are generally homogeneous with respect to skill type and/or skill level. Occupational classification is designed for the classification of data relating to jobs, however, the classification can also be used to classify persons. They may be categorized by the occupation of the job that they currently perform or of a job that they have previously performed. Occupations are organized in hierarchical classifications, whose classes are mutually exclusive and exhaustive of the universe of paid work. See Standard Occupational Classification (SOC 1991) – StatCan Catalogue No. 12-585E/F.

Refers to the kind of work persons were doing during the Labour Force Survey reference week, as determined by the kind of work reported and the description of the most important duties. For those not currently employed, information on occupation is collected for the most recent job held within the previous year. The 1991 Standard Occupation Classification (SOC) was used to classify occupations.

that which chiefly engages one's time; (one's) trade, profession, or business.

An insured's regular occupation or profession at the time of becoming disabled.d's age 65.

A group of related jobs that have similar duties, levels of responsibility, skills, knowledge, and physical demands.

The kind of work that identifies a person's principle work activity. (e.g. Electrician)

is the occupation/job title at time of injury or exposure. Occupation codes are the numeric 1990 US Bureau of the Census codes.

You will be asked for a clear description of your job and the industry you work in Some occupations attract loadings on their motor insurance

The type of work carried out regardless of the industry in which it is performed.

Skill set which, with certain variants, includes the same main duties or tasks or represents the same type of work. The skill set for a given occupation is taken into account in classifying jobs or establishing standards. The definition of an occupation may vary according to province or territory in Canada and according to the country.

A collection of jobs or types of work sharing similar skills and responsibilities.

Webster's defines “occupation” to mean “an activity in which one engages or the principal business of one's life.”  That's a pretty broad definition – maybe too broad for our purposes.  In SSI, we define the word “occupation” to be any one of the job descriptions classified in the BLS 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System.

a group of jobs or types of work sharing similar skills and other characteristics. The degree of homogeneity at the job level can vary between occupations.

a collection of jobs which are sufficiently similar in their main tasks and skill levels to be grouped together for the purposes of classification. These classifications can be found in The Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO) Second Edition (ABS Cat. no. 1220.0).

Oneâ€(tm)s habitual employment, business, trade, profession, or calling.

Occupation describes the kind of work the person does on the job. For employed people, the data refer to the person's job during the reference week. For those who worked at two or more jobs, the data refer to the job at which the person worked the greatest number of hours. Some examples of occupational groups shown in this product include managerial occupations; business and financial specialists; scientists and technicians; entertainment; healthcare; food service; personal services; sales; office and administrative support; farming; maintenance and repair; and production workers. Related term: Employed

Control of a country taken over by a foreign military power.

The 4th Geneva Convention 1949 (signed by Israel) says that acquisition of territory by war is inadmissible. It defines Occupied Territory, Occupying Power, and Protected People as the situation that results from cross-border military action. This is the international law which forbids settlement or destruction of property and defines other obligations of an occupying power.