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Definition

a particular type of job

She not only changed jobs, she changed vocations.

vocations = a particular type of job

Took a series of interest, aptitude, and personality tests to choose a good vocation.
Hurriedly I began choosing my vocation.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

vocation = type of job to be done as a career

The unique exhibition which you gave of your pupils engaged in their industrial vocations was not only artistic but thoroughly impressive.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

vocations = jobs

Just as I was wondering privately why in the world something like my vocation would even come up, Colton surprised me when he nodded enthusiastically.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

vocation = a particular type of job

Why should not you, too, find some sort of vocation in life, Mrs. Hedda?
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler

vocation = a particular type of job

You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

vocations = types of jobs that people have

I wonder what your vocation will turn out to be: perhaps you will be a poet?
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith
He was a gentle and kindly man, with a life and a longing, quite apart from his vocation, which were never lived or fulfilled.
Howells,William Dean -- My Literary Passions
He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation.
Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII
I applied it to him with the deliberate conviction that his vocation in life was the vocation of a spy.
Collins, Wilkie -- The Woman in White
I explained how sure I was of my vocation, that I had prayed to the Blessed Virgin to make me sure, and to find me worthy.
Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
But I'll have lots of spare time in the long winter evenings, and I've no vocation for fancy work.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
He studied construction as his vocation and in November 2008 graduated with his high school diploma.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
He went there, chose that as his vocation, with that as his purpose.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
It has always been so, un droit de la vocation—and necessary.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
For Adams it was as if he had found a vocation again.
David McCullough -- John Adams
She had no vocation for struggling with combinations; in the solemnity of sequestration there was something that overwhelmed her.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Protecting's always been my vocation."
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City

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