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on occasion

on occasion prepositional phrase: occasionally, from time to time, now and then.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Occasionally, from time to time, now and then.
    • Only on rare occasion.
    • It is not in itself surprising that a genuine advance of knowledge should in this manner become on occasion a source of new error.1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 425

on occasion meaning in Malayalam

on occasion in Malayalam

occasionally, at times, someti-mes
വല്ലപ്പോഴും, എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും, ഏതെങ്കിലും അവസരത്തിൽ, ഇടയ്ക്കിടെ, അന്തരാന്തരാ, ഇടയ്ക്കിടയ്ക്ക്

Questions about on occasion

What does on occasion mean?
On occasion means occasionally, from time to time, now and then.
What is on occasion in Malayalam?
On occasion in Malayalam is വല്ലപ്പോഴും, എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും, ഏതെങ്കിലും അവസരത്തിൽ. See On occasion meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is on occasion?
On occasion is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on occasion in the dictionary

  1. on net
  2. on no account
  3. on nodding terms
  4. on notice
  5. on oath
  6. on occasion
  7. on offer
  8. on one hand
  9. on one's back
  10. on one's beam ends
  11. on one's behaviour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on occasion (page history and authors); on occasion (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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