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Another word for vocation

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vocation

n.

The work for which one has prepared
calling, mission, pursuit; see profession 1.
The work at which one is engaged
employment, trade, occupation, duty, undertaking; see also job 1.

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Another word for vocation

noun

Activity pursued as a livelihood:
art, business, calling, career, craft, employment, job, line, mÃ©tier, occupation, profession, pursuit, trade, work. (Slang) racket. (Archaic) employ. See action
An inner urge to pursue an activity or perform a service:
calling, mission. See desire

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The vocation of the student could find fulfilment only in the religious orders.
My vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness of love and self-sacrifice.
Hence came his " conversion," and the sense of vocation for the ministry which impelled him in 1822 to enter Manchester College, then lodged at York.
It was not a suitable vocation, and he gladly accepted the rectorship of the Aegidien-gymnasiurn in Nuremberg, a post which he held from December 1808 to August 1816.
He studied both law and medicine, but found his real vocation in politics, and at once constituted himself a champion of the most advanced opinions.

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