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Occupation vs Plasterer - What's the difference?

occupation | plasterer |

As nouns the difference between occupation and plasterer

is that occupation is an activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job while plasterer is a person whose occupation is to plaster walls.

occupation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
  • The act, process or state of possessing a place.
  • The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
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    Synonyms

    * (activity with which one occupies oneself) profession, vocation, interest, employment

    plasterer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person whose occupation is to plaster walls.
  • * 1593 , , IV.ii. 125:
    • Villain, thy father was a plasterer ; / And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?
  • One who makes plaster casts.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • The plasterer doth make his figures by addition, and the carver by substraction.

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns