<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation</li><li>Her occupation was dentistry</li><li>any activity in which a person is engaged</li><li>possession, settlement, or use of land or property</li><li>the act of occupying, possessing, or settling</li><li>the state of being occupied, taken over, or settled</li><li>the state of being busy</li><li>His constant occupation with his writing has cut severely into his social life</li><li>the seizure and control of an area by military forces, especially foreign territory</li><li>the term of control of a territory by foreign military forces</li><li>Danish resistance during the German occupation</li><li>tenure or the holding of an office or official function</li><li>during his occupation of the vice presidency</li><li>the act of going into and taking control of a public or private space, as a park or building, especially as an act of protest</li><li>The students' week-long occupation of the dean's office brought about a change in the university's curfew policy</li><li>the state or condition of living or working in a given place</li><li>The landlord will not allow occupation of any of his apartments by families with children or pets</li></ul>