Synonyms of the word calling


CALLINGBUSINESS - CAREER - JOB - LINE - OCCUPATION - VOCATION

calling

  • v. present participle of call.
  • n. A strong urge to become religious.
  • n. A job or occupation.

business

  • n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
  • n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
  • n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
  • n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
  • n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
  • n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
  • n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
  • n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
  • n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
  • n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
  • n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
  • n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
  • n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
  • n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
  • adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
  • adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
  • adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

career

  • n. One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
  • n. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
  • n. (archaic) speed.
  • n. A jouster's path during a joust.
  • n. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
  • n. (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
  • n. (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
  • v. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

job

  • n. A task.
  • n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
  • n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
  • n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
  • n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
  • n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
  • n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
  • n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
  • v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
  • v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
  • v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
  • v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
  • v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
  • v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
  • v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
  • v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
  • v. To hire or let in periods of service.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

occupation

  • n. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service,…
  • n. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
  • n. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.

vocation

  • n. An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to…
  • n. An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.

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