position vs occupation

occupation vs position

position and occupation both are nouns.

position is a verb but occupation is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
position	Yes	No	Yes	No
occupation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, occupation is a hypernym of position; that is, occupation is a word with a broader meaning than position:

position: a job in an organization
occupation: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

Other hypernyms of position include business, job, line, line of work.

position (noun)	occupation (noun)
the act of putting something in a certain place	the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
a job in an organization	the act of occupying or taking possession of a building
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player	the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another	any activity that occupies a person's attention
the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom	the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
the arrangement of the body and its limbs
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
a rationalized mental attitude
an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
an item on a list or in a sequence
the particular portion of space occupied by something
a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
the appropriate or customary location
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
a condition or position in which you find yourself

position (verb)	occupation (verb)
put into a certain place or abstract location
cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation

Difference between position and occupation

Words related to "position"

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