occupation
noun
a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation.
self-occupation
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a word derived from
occupation.
Example Sentences
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Absorbed in her own hopes and fears, whilst every hour harassed her more intolerably, Marian was unable to play the part of an encourager; she had never known such exclusiveness of self-occupation.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
Was there no escape here from this stupidity of a murmuring self-occupation?
From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot
Mr. May looked at him with scientific observation, and Ursula with half-affronted curiosity; his self-occupation was an offence to the girl, but it was only amusing to her father.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
It is mere self-occupation, and helps to make you blunt and shy.'
From The Young Step-Mother by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Richling, in the self-occupation of a lover, forgot what pains he might be inflicting.
From Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable
