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occupational

US/ɑkjuˈpeɪʃənəl/

occupational adjective: of, belonging, or relating to an occupation (in any sense).

Adjective

occupational (comparative more occupational, superlative most occupational)

  1. Of, belonging, or relating to an occupation (in any sense).
    • Boredom is an occupational hazard if you are a checkout operator.
    • She added that if someone is experiencing a high degree of distress because of scelerophobia and their social and occupational functioning is being affected, she recommends seeing a medical provider or mental health professional.2023 September 26, Abby Roch, “My house was broken into. Now I have developed a fear of thieves called scelerophobia.”, in Business Insider

occupational meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

occupational in Tamil

தொழில் சார்ந்த, தொழில் வகையால் உருவாகும், தொழில் வழி, பணி வழி

occupational in Urdu

کارو باری, پیشہ وارانہ

occupational in Bengali

বৃত্তিমূলক, পেশাদার, বৃত্তীয়

occupational in Malayalam

job-related, work, professional
തൊഴിൽപരമായ, തൊഴിലിനോടു ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട, ജോലിസംബന്ധമായ, പ്രവൃത്തിപരമായ, വാർത്തിക, വൃത്തിക
More languagesFewer languages
occupational in Kannada
ಉದ್ಯೋಗದ, ವೃತ್ತೀಯ, ಔದ್ಯೋಗಿಕ
occupational in Punjabi
ਕਿੱਤਾ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ
occupational in Arabic
وَظِيفِيّ waẓīfiyy, مِهَنِيّ mihaniyy

Examples of occupational in a sentence

  • Karoshi, a Japanese word that literally translates as "overwork death," is known as sudden occupational mortality.
  • Asking uncomfortable questions at the most inopportune time is an occupational hazard."
  • My father had been a dialogue-quoting filmaholic—an occupational hazard that drove my mother, and audiences, nuts.

All 27 example sentences with occupational

Forms of occupational

comparativemore occupational
superlativemost occupational

Origin of occupational

From occupation (noun) + -al (suffix forming adjectives).

Words formed from occupational

Phrases with occupational

Words that rhyme with occupational

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about occupational

What does occupational mean?
Occupational means of, belonging, or relating to an occupation (in any sense).
What is occupational in Tamil?
Occupational in Tamil is தொழில் சார்ந்த, தொழில் வகையால் உருவாகும், தொழில் வழி. See Occupational meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is occupational?
Occupational is an adjective.
How do you pronounce occupational?
Occupational is pronounced /ɑkjuˈpeɪʃənəl/ (US).

Words near occupational in the dictionary

  1. occupation numbers
  2. occupation order
  3. occupation orders
  4. occupationaire
  5. occupationaires
  6. occupational
  7. occupational cancer
  8. occupational crime
  9. occupational crimes
  10. occupational disease
  11. occupational diseases

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: occupational (page history and authors); occupational (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupational (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupational (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupational (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); occupational (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupational (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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