ON OCCASION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on occasion mean? 

• ON OCCASION (adverb)
  The adverb ON OCCASION has 1 sense:

1. sporadically and infrequently

  Familiarity information: ON OCCASION used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON OCCASION (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sporadically and infrequently

Synonyms:

at times; from time to time; now and again; now and then; occasionally; on occasion; once in a while

Context example:

as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention

 Context examples 

Nor was she above slashing his shoulder sharply on occasion.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Nay, man, there are finer stalls in Cheapside,” answered Ford, whose father had taken him to London on occasion of one of the Smithfield joustings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One part was open, and by that I had crept in; but now I covered every crevice by which I might be perceived with stones and wood, yet in such a manner that I might move them on occasion to pass out; all the light I enjoyed came through the sty, and that was sufficient for me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A minute opening at or near the apex of a root of a tooth, but on occasion located on the side of a root, which allows passage to the vascular, lymphatic and neural structures supplying the pulp.

(Foramen Apicis Dentis, NCI Thesaurus)

On occasion, in a casual sort of way, when she thought hunger pinched hardest, she would send him in a loaf of new baking, awkwardly covering the act with banter to the effect that it was better than he could bake.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I well remember that, on occasion of an outfall, a Genoan raised his arm over his mantlet, and shook it at us, a hundred paces from our line.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)