occasions

Noun

occasion (countable and uncountable, plural occasions)

1. A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
   • At this point, she seized the occasion to make her own observation.
2. The time when something happens.
   • On this occasion, I'm going to decline your offer, but next time I might agree.
3. An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
   • I had no occasion to feel offended, however.
4. Something which causes something else; a cause.
   • [I]t were too vile to ſay, and ſcarce to be beleeued, what we endured: but the occaſion was our owne, for want of prouidence, induſtrie and gouernment, […]1624, Iohn [i.e., John] Smith, “What happened in the first gouernment after the alteration in the time of Captaine George Piercie their Gouernour”, in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England...
5. (obsolete) An occurrence or incident.

   Synonyms:

   event, happening, affair, befalling, episode, instance, goings-on, hap, incident, occurrence

6. A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
   • I could think of two separate occasions when she had deliberately lied to me.

   Synonyms:

   instant, point in time, juncture, minute, moment, sith, time

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