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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working for a living; |
| Synonyms: | assignment, avocation, awarding, business, calling, carrying, commissioning, contracting, craft, employ, engagement in activity application, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, exercise, exercising, exertion, field, function, game*, hire, hiring, job, line, mission, métier, number, occupation, occupying, office, position, post, profession, pursuit, racket, recruitment, retaining, service, servicing, setup, signing on, situation, taking on, thing*, trade, using, vocation, what one is into, work |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inactivity, unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guild |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, fellowship |
| Synonyms: | club, company, corporation, federation, group, interest group, league, lodge, order, organization, profession, society, sodality, trade, union |
| Notes: | gild means to decorate with gold leaf or liquid gold while a guild is a formal association of people with similar interests |
| Main Entry: | handicraft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artwork, skill |
| Synonyms: | achievement, art, artifact, artisanship, calling, craft, craftship, creation, design, handiwork, invention, métier, product, production, profession, result, trade, vocation |
| Main Entry: | job |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | employment |
| Synonyms: | activity, appointment, assignment, berth, billet, business, calling, capacity, career, chore, connection, craft, daily grind, engagement, faculty, function, gig, grind*, handicraft, line, livelihood, means, métier, niche, nine-to-five, occupation, office, opening, operation, place, position, post, posting, profession, pursuit, racket, rat race, situation, spot, stint, swindle*, task, trade, vocation, work |
| Antonyms: | unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lifework |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's calling |
| Synonyms: | business, career, interest, mission, occupation, profession, purpose, pursuit, vocation, work |
| Antonyms: | task |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's calling, interest |
| Synonyms: | activity, area, business, department, employment, field, forte, job, occupation, profession, province, pursuit, racket, specialization, trade, vocation, work |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
| Main Entry: | livelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupation |
| Synonyms: | alimentation, art, bread and butter, business, circumstances, craft, employment, game*, grind*, income, job, keep*, living, maintenance, means, nine-to-five, profession, racket, rat race, resources, slot, source of income, subsistence, support, sustenance, thing*, trade, vocation, what one is into, work |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | métier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupation |
| Synonyms: | calling, chosen work, craft, day gig, employment, field, forte, job, line of work, one's specialty, profession, pursuit, racket, thing*, trade, vocation, walk of life, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's task, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | aim, assignment, business, calling, charge, commission, duty, end, errand, goal, job, lifework, object, objective, office, operation, profession, purpose, pursuit, quest, sortie, trade, trust, undertaking, vocation, work |
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