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How to spell occupation

Occupation is spelled O-C-C-U-P-A-T-I-O-N. The part people get wrong: double C.

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.

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.

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