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OCCASIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occasions mean? 

OCCASIONS (noun)
  The noun OCCASIONS has 1 sense:

1. something you have to doplay

  Familiarity information: OCCASIONS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OCCASIONS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Something you have to do

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

he minded his own specialized occasions

Hypernyms ("occasions" is a kind of...):

business (an immediate objective)


 Context examples 


Living in his neighbourhood, I saw him frequently; and we all went to his house on two or three occasions to dinner or tea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On many occasions, or in many situations.

(Often, NCI Thesaurus)

However, thank God, these occasions grow less frequent as the days go on, and they will in time pass away altogether, I trust.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Remembering appointments, family occasions, holidays, medications.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Remember, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypertension characterized diastolic blood pressure greater than 90 mmHg on two occasions.

(Diastolic Hypertension, NCI Thesaurus)

A borderline blood vessel neoplasm that may metastasize on rare occasions.

(Intermediate (Rarely Metastasizing) Blood Vessel Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Martin bethought himself of the numerous occasions on which he had met Judge Blount at the Morses' and when Judge Blount had not invited him to dinner.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A borderline blood vessel neoplasm that can be locally aggressive, and may metastasize on rare occasions.

(Intermediate Blood Vessel Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

On the first of these occasions, she perpetrated the attempt to burn me in my bed; on the second, she paid that ghastly visit to you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some occasions when I need them most to support my spirits.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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