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OCCUPATIONAL GROUP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does occupational group mean?
• OCCUPATIONAL GROUP (noun)
The noun OCCUPATIONAL GROUP has 1 sense:
1. a body of people doing the same kind of work
Familiarity information: OCCUPATIONAL GROUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A body of people doing the same kind of work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
occupational group; vocation
Hypernyms ("occupational group" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupational group"):
profession (the body of people in a learned occupation)
press corps (a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics)
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