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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 workplay

  Familiarity information: OCCUPATIONAL GROUP used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OCCUPATIONAL GROUP (noun)


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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