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   vocation

   /və(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation: "not all of us have a vocation to be nurses or doctors"
   • ▪ a person's employment or main occupation, especially regarded as worthy and requiring dedication: "her vocation as a poet"
   • ▪ a trade or profession: "GNVQs in Leisure and Tourism will be the introduction to a wide span of vocations"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vocatio(n-), from vocare ‘to call’.

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   Where did the word vocation come from?

   • When vocation was first used in English in the 15th century it referred specifically to a summons from God to perform a particular task or function in life, especially a religious one. This meaning is no surprise given the word's source: it comes from Latin vocation-, vocacio, meaning "summons," which in turn comes from vocāre, meaning "to call."

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   What does vocation mean?

   • a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling. a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career. a divine call to God's service or to the Christian life. the religious vocation; the vocation of marriage.

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   What does vocacioun mean?

   • Middle English vocacioun "a strong inclination to a particular course of action or way of life," from early French vocaciun (same meaning), from Latin vocation-, vocatio "summons," derived from vocare "to call" — related to advocate, provoke, revoke

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   What is a religious vocation?

   • a divine call to God's service or to the Christian life. the religious vocation; the vocation of marriage. Over the course of three deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, during which she flew 89 combat missions and then served as “a ground-based problem solver,” McGrath had to reckon with the violent nature of her vocation.

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   Is your vocation a vacation?

   • Unless you can find someone to pay you to sip fancy tropical drinks on the beach, your vocation is not likely to be a vacation. Rather, the word means something you know how to do––or what you do for a living. The word vocation derives from the Latin vocare "to call."

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   Is writing a vocation?

   • Most teachers regard their profession as a vocation, not just a job. To work in medicine, you should have a vocation for it. It wasn’t until "The North American Review" published his story that he embraced writing as a vocation. find/miss your vocation I feel I've found my true vocation. To work in medicine, you should have a vocation for it.

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   a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career. a divine call to God's service or to the Christian life. a function or station in life to which one is called by God: the religious vocation; the vocation of marriage. vocation. / vəʊˈkeɪʃən /.

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    Unless you can find someone to pay you to sip fancy tropical drinks on the beach, your vocation is not likely to be a vacation. Rather, the word means something you know how to do––or what you do for a living. The word vocation derives from the Latin vocare "to call."