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ok-yoo-PAYSH-uh-nl/ˌɒkjuˈpeɪʃənl/

Occupational means of a job or profession: occupational hazard, occupational health. Occupation (already in the dictionary) is the noun (job, or military control). Work and job are everyday. Do not file a night-shift hazard as a metaphor.

Meaning

Relating to a person’s job or profession.

Examples

• “Occupational risk on the night shift is a logged hazard, not a metaphor.”
• “Job is everyday. Professional can mean high-status work. Vocational is of training for a trade. An occupying army is the other sense of occupation. A logged hazard needs a control, not a poster.”

Good to know

Of a job / workplace. Noun: occupation (already in the dictionary). Everyday: job / work. A hazard is a log line, not a figure of speech.

Near in meaning

occupation

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