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Vocation :: Vocation (n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.

Colleague :: Colleague (n.) A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

At :: At (prep.) The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns..

Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..

Apportion :: Apportion (v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments..

Qualify :: Qualify (v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment..

Commissaryship :: Commissaryship (n.) The office or employment of a commissary.

Stateswomen :: Statesmanship (n.) The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman..

Situation :: Situation (n.) Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government..

Misimprovement :: Misimprovement (n.) Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.

Active :: Active (a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes..

Spiritualist :: Spiritualist (n.) One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.

Robust :: Robust (a.) Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment..

Private :: Private (a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life..

Business :: Business (n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession..

Call :: Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church..

Datary :: Datary (n.) The office or employment of a datary.

Historiography :: Historiography (n.) The art of employment of an historiographer.

Qualification :: Qualification (n.) That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession..

Discard :: Discard (v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away..

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