careernoun

vocation | American Dictionary

vocation
noun[ C ]
us/voʊˈkeɪ·ʃən/
a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you give much of your time and energy:
It wasn’t until "The North American Review" published his story that he embraced writing as a vocation.

vocation | Business English

vocation
noun[ C ]
uk /vəʊˈkeɪʃən/us
a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you in this way:
find/miss your vocationI feel I've found my true vocation.
To work in medicine, you should have a vocation for it.

Examples of vocation

vocation
This situation is perfectly familiar, and applies not only to religious vocations generally, but to non-religious cases of volunteering, such as for a military mission.
In relation to the hospital, the implicit assumption is that this health structure has a technical vocation exclusive from social problems.
For a long time, old and new ideals regarding the propriety of a dual vocation of cleric and scientific practitioner conflicted.
Some conservatives, notably libertarians and housewives, ultimately rejected politics as a vocation.
Clearly, the task of recovering for opera its vocation of theatre is far more complex than meets the eye - or ear.
Here, however, the self-sacrice was to be on the part of the bride, the vocation on the part of the prospective husband.
The social vocation of psychology and its status as expertise is intrinsically bound to such questions.
If we view medicine as a vocation, we must compassionately recognize the innate worth of all humanity.
We are in a period in which there is widespread interest in renewal of medicine as a vocation, a calling.
The remaining eight books discuss the eight principal vices which the monk encounters in his vocation.
The resulting religious, social and economic dimensions of their lives are drawn out and shown to be, rather, different facets of a single vocation.
Laurence's youth and doubtful vocation offered the community an opportunity to challenge dynastic control.
They were from various vocations and had varying levels of education.
Reclusion, therefore, even within a monastic context, was by this date a respectable vocation in its own right.
Only the most carefully circumscribed sort of domesticity can be admitted, one which at least ostensibly makes male desire and vocation congruent with female self-sacrice.
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