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Noun: vocation  vow'key-shun
  1. The particular occupation for which you are trained
    "If it weren't for John Newton's advice that politics was his vocation, Wilberforce might well have been an obscure country cleric";
    - career, calling
     
  2. A body of people doing the same kind of work
    "Teaching is a vocation that attracts dedicated individuals";
    - occupational group

Derived forms: vocations

Type of: body, business, job, line, line of work, occupation

Encyclopedia: Vocation, Ecclesiastical and Religious