Noun: vocation vow'key-shun
- 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
- 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