occupation
noun
a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation.
occupative
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a word derived from
occupation.
Example Sentences
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Of occupative names which have also an official meaning, the three commonest are Ward, Bailey, and Marshall.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
The occupative name would, especially in villages, tend to become a very natural surname.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
Three of them may be mentioned here in connection with a small group of occupative surnames of puzzling form.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
We have a few traces of this oldest group of occupative names, e.g.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
We rarely find this -s in the case of occupative names, but Parsons, Vicars or Vickers, and Monks are common, and in fact the first two are scarcely found without the -s.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
