Synonyms for vocation
voʊˈkeɪ ʃənvo·ca·tion

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1. 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, work

   Preposition:
   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.

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1. vocation

   Synonyms:
   profession, office, calling, function, mission, avocation, trade, business, capacity, employment, occupation

   Antonyms:
   inconversance, incapacity, leisure, nonemployment

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1. career, calling, vocationnoun

   the particular occupation for which you are trained

   Synonyms:
   occupational group, career, life history, calling

2. occupational group, vocationnoun

   a body of people doing the same kind of work

   Synonyms:
   occupational group, career, calling

Matched Categories

1. • Body
   • Occupation

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1. vocationnoun

   Synonyms:
   occupation, employment, calling, business, pursuit, profession, trade, AVOCATION

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1. List of paraphrases for "vocation":

   calling, profession

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1. The Pope:

   Some congregations experiment with 'artificial insemination.' What do they do? They welcome... 'Yes come, come, come'. And then there are problems, no. We must be serious about who we take. We must clearly distinguish if it is a real vocation, and help it to grow.

2. Scott Harrison:

   Working in an organization with your vocation doesn’t need to be a bummer, i don’t think you need to walk around with a sad face all day because you’re working in conditions of extreme poverty.

3. Dr. Viktor E Frankl:

   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.

4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

   If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

5. Pope Francis:

   We know abuses are everywhere, in families, in the neighborhoods, in the schools, in the gyms, but when a priest abuses it is very grave because the vocation of the priest is to make that boy, that girl grow towards the love of God, toward maturity, but instead (the victim) is crushed by evil and this is nearly a sacrilege because the priest has betrayed his vocation, the calling of the Lord.