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occupational, a.|ɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən(ə)l|
[f. prec. + al1.]
Of or belonging to an occupation or occupations (sense 4 b); occupational disease, (a) disease to which a particular occupation renders a person especially liable; also joc.; occupational hazard, occupational risk, a risk accepted as part of a particular occupation; also joc.; occupational therapy, an activity, mental or physical, prescribed as an aid to recovery from disease or injury or for mental patients; so occupational therapist, someone skilled in supervising or trained to supervise such activity.
1850Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1883) 387 She sews, not like a lady, but with an occupational air. 1862R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 146 An amount of physical, mental, and occupational variety such as he will meet with nowhere else in the world. 1901Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Aug. 412/2 A number of valuable papers upon occupational diseases. 1915G. E. Barton in Trained Nurse & Hospital Rev. Mar. 138 (heading) Occupational therapy. 1919― (title) Teaching the sick; a manual of occupational therapy and re-education. 1919J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 328 These occupational federations acted independently of each other. 1922Jrnl. Mental Sci. LXVIII. 192 The personnel comprises a chief and five assistant trained occupational therapists. 1923Ibid. LXIX. 126 The occupational centre or ‘curative workshop’ serves more or less as a proving ground. 1926B. Webb My Apprenticeship iii. 129 Personal vanity..was an ‘occupational disease’ of entertaining and being entertained. 1934H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 184/2 Occupational hierarchy, the serial arrangement of occupational groups according to average intelligence. 1937Discovery May 144/1 The excavation..showed a mound that had already been abandoned by 1500 b.c., and 20 occupational levels below it. 1944M. Laski Love on Supertax iv. 52 You're insured against occupational risks. 1949W. L. Warner in M. Fortes Social Struct. 4 Interviews..are taken from informants..from several occupational groups. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. iv. 138 A worker's choice of employment is guided by his wife's attitude to the conditions of his work, its cleanliness, occupational risks, or security. 1952‘Vigilans’ Chamber of Horrors 94 Occupational hazard, a risk necessarily run in one's work. 1956S. Gibbons Here be Dragons xvii. 235, I don't think I shall marry if I'm asked. There's too much occupational risk. 1956B. Goolden At Foot of Hills ix. 202 Are you the young man who wants to see over the occupational therapy department? 1959Listener 15 Oct. 614/1 Exile has been regarded as an occupational hazard for poets in particular ever since Plato denied them rights of citizenship in his republic. Ibid. 10 Dec. 1041/3 As a museum man himself, Mr. Baxandall will be aware of..that occupational disease of his profession which might be called ‘collector's greediness’. 1959B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Path. ii. 48 Whether, on balance, prisoners are likely to exalt or to debase their occupational level is anybody's guess. 1971Times 6 Sept. 7/8 The Department of Employment has occupational guidance services throughout the country. 1973Times 13 Jan. 19/7 Occupational pension scheme is one established by an employer for the benefit of his employees, and wholly paid for by him and (frequently, but not necessarily) his employees. Ibid. 1 June 24/1 (Advt.), For further information please contact the Head Occupational Therapist. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 470/2 Occupational therapy provides not only training in daily living activities but also aids that make eating, dressing, and toilet less fatiguing for the sick or elderly. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. 76/1 Asbestos has become an increasingly important occupational hazard. Ibid., This led to a false sense of security about occupational disease in coal mining until 1920.
Hence occuˈpationally adv.
1952C. P. Blacker Eugenics vii. 141 That there existed a group of occupationally unstable persons who are in continuous receipt of public assistance had been well recognized since the time of Charles Booth. 1971D. Crystal Linguistics 132 Do they occur in certain occupationally restricted uses of language only, such as journalese? 1973Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 8/1 The Council, sitting in Star Chamber, publicly ordered anyone not occupationally resident in London to leave the City forthwith. |