occupation

do, perform, execute; achieve (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play., employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand (business) [more]; labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course (conduct) [more]., act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger, stretch forth one's hand; take in hand (undertake); put oneself in motion; put in practice; carry into execution (complete); act upon., be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with (meddle)., be in action; come into operation (power at work).

be active; busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll (labor); plod, persist (persevere); keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling., look sharp; have all one's eyes about one (vigilance) [more]; rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash off; make haste; do one's best take pains (exert oneself) [more]; do wonders, work wonders., have many irons in the fire, have one's hands full, have much on one's hands; have other things to do, have other fish to fry; be busy; not have a moment to spare, not have a moment that one can call one's own., have one's fling, run the round of; go all lengths, stick at nothing, run riot., outdo; overdo, overact, overlay, overshoot the mark; make a toil of a pleasure., have a hand in (act in); take an active part, put in one's oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head about, intrigue; agitate., tamper with, meddle, moil; intermeddle, interfere, interpose; obtrude; poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in.

pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with (do)., drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work., officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office, discharge the office, perform the office, perform the duties, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio., be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full (activity) [more]., be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands.

be the duty of; be incumbent on, be responsible; behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself (promise) [more]; be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility n.; be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself., impose a duty; enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige., enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty (be virtuous) [more]., be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.

exist in space, be present; assister; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy., people; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge, nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode (be located) [more]; tenant., resort to, frequent, haunt; revisit., fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through; overspread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn.

tread a path; take a course, hold a course; shape one's steps, direct one's steps, bend one's steps, course; play a game; fight one's way, elbow one's way; follow up; take to, take up; go in for; ride one's hobby.