service occupation

Examples of occupation

occupation
Totimehuacan benefited from easier access to courts and government authorities, but it also had to endure the city's economic downturns, epidemics, and military occupations.
The door to well-paid occupations was firmly closed.
We all recognise, perforce, that the first occupations and training of the nursery and kindergarten must follow the natural lines of the child's development.
Unlike the other informants they had spent their working lives in manual occupations.
In many cases the authorities instituted hereditary family occupations and probably determined patrilineal succession.
Increases granted as percentages on the prevailing rates only served to accentuate the wage differentials between occupations and the disparities between mills.
He did not complete high school, and he writes so that old ways of life and occupations will be documented, not to produce literary pieces.
The censuses contain statistics on occupations, but cannot serve as the main source for a study analysing questions on servant recruitment and careers.
Instead, the concept of three ' sorts of people ' expressed a rudimentary perception of broad, rough-edged affinities between occupations of similar wealth, administrative power, and prestige.
They could make this assumption because of the social transformations of the late eighteenth century, wherein many of women's customary occupations disappeared.
Most married women and widows were classified by the occupations of their husbands, because the bulk of women with occupations of their own were unmarried.
Both narrowed over two decades with the higher rates in women and those in manual occupations falling, to become nearer males and non-manual occupations.
The learned professions were here setting a precedent of institutionalization and control, which many other occupations sought to emulate over the nineteenth century.
The skills and qualifications participants referred to tended to relate to vocational qualifications that would lead to skilled occupations.
From this perspective it is useful to distinguish between high-tech industries and high-tech occupations.
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Collocations withoccupation

occupation

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belligerent occupation
Once we get beyond simple examples like traffic direction or belligerentoccupation, things can get murky.
civilian occupation
I am dealing with areas of ordinary civilian occupation.
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