vocation
8
3.8
- noun
- /voʊˈkeɪʃən/
:
profesión
- Nursing is at the same time a vocation, a profession, and a job.
- vocations to the priesthood
- religious vocations
- public vocations
Go to trade school, get a vocation, become an electrician, Carpenter, plumber, mechanic.
- Go to trade school, get a vocation, become an electrician, Carpenter, plumber, mechanic.
- When, when we took shop class out of high school, we removed from sight entire vocations.
- And so basically I just talked to the kids about all these things, about permanence, about institutions, about vocations, about the love of people.
- So there were horrors that followed from those are vocations of science, but it's prestige was enormous.
Examples
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The leaders of these groups, moreover, often gain a means of pursuing a professional religious vocation.
Academic text (1999) -
In the Catholic tradition, family life is a part of the public vocation of parents.
Academic text (2002) -
We worry he'll lose not just his vocation to the priesthood, but also his faith.
Blog text (5) -
But there was plenty of time for them to choose their vocations.
Fiction book (1996) -
Such is the vocation of a nurse in a poor man's graveyard or hospital.
Fiction book (1997) -
Additionally, they have committed themselves to celibacy and a vocation that runs counter to their traditional role as wives and mothers.
Academic text (1997) -
The idea is to boost more Americans from poverty and into vocations offering self-sufficiency.
Blog text (11) -
Many teachers feel that their profession is not just a job, but a true vocation that brings them joy.
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He dedicated his life to his vocation as a firefighter, helping to keep his community safe.
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Joining the medical field was not just a career choice for her; it was a calling, a vocation she felt destined for.
Synonyms
165
2.9
A group of people who work in the same trained job, like teachers
12
5.5
All the people who do the same kind of work seen as a group
1
9.9
A group of people who share a common purpose and work together
1
3.1
A group of people who do the same job
Surface Forms
Morphology
vocation = voc (opaque) = voc + ation
The combining form 'voc-' is not a familiar standalone English morpheme, so the organizational/professional sense is not transparently derived for learners.
Etymology
Vocation also traces back to the Latin vocare ('to call') and can mean the people who share the same 'calling' or profession. So when we speak of the medical or teaching vocation, we mean the community of people in that line of work.