occupations
- 1Plural of occupation.
Many of the town's traditional occupations disappeared once the factory closed.
The form listed several occupations she had held over the past decade.
Note
Only the countable uses of the noun take a plural. Occupations are the separate jobs, trades or pastimes a person takes up, or separate episodes of a hostile force holding a region, as in the successive occupations of a city. The mass uses stay singular: a country under occupation, a house ready for occupation. Use the plural when the occupations can be counted one by one.
occupations is a form of occupation
occupation, noun: A regular activity, trade, or craft that someone is engaged in, especially the paid work that serves as a person's job. Full entry
- Forms
- occupationoccupations plural
- Spelling
- occupation → occupations: add -s
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with occupations, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.