Vocation

[və(ʊ)'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [vo'keʃən]

解釋/意思:

(n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

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

(n.) A calling by the will of God.

(n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.

(n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.

埃塞雷德編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Occupation, employment, calling, business, pursuit, profession, trade, AVOCATION.

錄入:欧文

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Profession, office, calling, function, mission, avocation, trade, business,capacity, employment, occupation

ANT:Inconversance, Incapacity, leisure, nonemployment

整理:洛厄尔

解釋/意思:

n. call or act of calling: calling: occupation.—adj. Vocā′tional.—adv. Vocā′tionally.

整理:纳撒尼尔