Occupation commonly refers to:

• Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment
• Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces
• Military occupation, the martial control of a territory
• Occupancy, use of a building

Occupation or The Occupation may also refer to:

• Occupation (2018 film), an Australian film
• Occupation (2021 film), a Czech comedy drama film
• Occupation (TV series), a 2009 British drama about the Iraq War
• "Occupation" (Battlestar Galactica), a 2006 television episode
• "The Occupation" (Star Wars Rebels), a 2017 television episode
• The Occupation, a 2019 video game
• The Occupation, a 2019 novel by Deborah Swift

• Career, a course through life
• Employment, a relationship wherein a person serves of another by hire
• Job (disambiguation)
• Occupy (disambiguation)
• Position (disambiguation)
• Profession, a vocation
• Standard Occupational Classification System
• Vocation, an occupation to which a person is specially drawn
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