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means The work you do regularly to earn a living, or the act of occupying or holding a place, space, or time.

from From Latin 'occupatio' (a seizing, taking possession, or being busy with something), built from 'occupare' — 'ob-' (over, toward) plus 'capere' (to seize or take). The same root gives us 'occupy.' For centuries the word carried both senses at once: the taking of a space (as armies occupy territory) and the taking up of one's time and hands (as a trade occupies a worker) — a reminder that a job, too, is a kind of territory you've claimed and now must hold.