How to spell occupation

hear itoc·cu·pa·tion/,ɑkjə'peɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A person's job or profession.

In a sentence: My dad's occupation is a firefighter, and he helps keep our town safe.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double c. Often misspelled as ocupation or occuppation.

Same family: occupied, occupying, occupier, reoccupation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Occupation” comes from Latin *occupatio*, meaning ‘a taking possession’ or ‘a seizure,’ from *occupare* ‘to seize or take over.’ The same root also gave us the common modern sense of “occupation” as someone’s job, which originally meant the activity that ‘takes up’ your time.

Patterns it uses: -tion, -sion or -cian?

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