What are some opposite words for vocation?
Antonyms for vocation
voʊˈkeɪ ʃənvo·ca·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
vocation
A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver's craft.
Synonyms:
affair, art, avocation, barter, business, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, employment, handicraft, job, occupation, profession, trade, trading, traffic, transaction, workPreposition:
The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
vocation
Antonyms:
inconversance, incapacity, leisure, nonemploymentSynonyms:
profession, office, calling, function, mission, avocation, trade, business, capacity, employment, occupation
Matched Categories
Princeton's WordNet
career, calling, vocationnoun
the particular occupation for which you are trained
Synonyms:
occupational group, career, life history, callingoccupational group, vocationnoun
a body of people doing the same kind of work
Synonyms:
occupational group, career, calling
How to use vocation in a sentence?
Jenna, maxwell suggested that Virginia meet [Epstein] to apply for the job. Virginia was skeptical, pointing out that she didn’t have the proper training. But Maxwell assured her that she could learn on the job, noting that it looked as if Virginia was serious about her vocation—based on all the sticky notes she could see poking out of the anatomy book in her hands. She gave Virginia her address and phone number. ‘Why don’t you come by after work?’ Maxwell left, with a cheery, almost motherly goodbye.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
I'm a long time admirer of the Vice President, and frankly when it became clear that he was giving the race serious consideration, I just raised my hand, i made the choice a few years ago to mostly get out of politics as a vocation, other than as a volunteer for people and causes that I care about.
My father is a physicist - and to some extent he has some physicist's envy for my vocation.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3291 | leisure | |
#27294 | vocation | |
#31904 | incapacity |
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