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Venture vs Occupation - What's the difference?

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Venture is a related term of occupation.


As nouns the difference between venture and occupation

is that venture is a risky or daring undertaking or journey while 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.

As a verb venture

is to undertake a risky or daring journey.

venture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
  • * 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
    • My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
  • An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

    Verb

    (ventur)
  • To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  • * J. Dryden, Jr.
    • who freights a ship to venture on the seas
  • To risk or offer.
    • to venture funds
    to venture a guess
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
  • to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
  • To put or send on a venture or chance.
    • to venture a horse to the West Indies
  • To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
  • * Addison
    • A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
  • To say something.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "venture")

    Derived terms

    * venture capital

    Related terms

    * venturesome * venturous

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    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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}

    Synonyms

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