occupation
Example Sentences
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During the Roman occupation, the area around Beachy Head was dotted with settlements and infrastructure tied to the empire.
From Science Daily
President Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary of state John Foster Dulles urged Eastern European nations in the mid-1950s to rise up against Soviet occupation by announcing a policy of “liberation” and “rollback” of communism.
As more and more humans travel into space, including for tourism and a possible occupation of the Moon or even Mars, space experts say doctors will need to travel on missions.
From BBC
There seems to be a growing consensus among the accomplished and influential that you should never surrender your occupation.
Occasionally undone by melodramatic tendencies, “All That’s Left of You” catalogs the emotional toll that occupation visits on the oppressed.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
