See Also:

occupation (oh) and NPN (medicine)


occupation (oh)



[C] a job or profession
::Please state your name, address and occupation.
::professional and managerial occupations
::manual occupations
see usage note job
[U] when a large group of people enter a place and take control of it, especially by military force
occupation of
::the German occupation of France
under occupation
::The area is under occupation (=controlled by a foreign army) .
[C] a way of spending your time
-synonym pastime pastime
::One of my childhood occupations was collecting stamps.
[U] when someone lives or stays in a building or place
::When the first scientists came to the region they found little evidence of human occupation.

NPN (medicine)


NPN
<abbreviation> Nonprotein nitrogen.