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One's profession, trade, or career.

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Usage examples (34)
  • The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
  • Intrinsic to their vocation is an inevitable rendezvous with non-literary expectations.
  • Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, your vocation is as timely as ever, and your mission as monks is indispensable.
  • My main avocation, almost a second vocation, is farming.
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