occupationaloc‧cu‧pa‧tion‧al /ˌɒkjəˈpeɪʃənəl◂ $ ˌɑːk-/ ●○○ AWL adjective [only before noun] 
occupational pension schemes an occupational health centre occupational disease Getting injured is an occupational hazard (=a risk that always exists in a particular job or activity) of the sport.—occupationally adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Occupational injuries and even deaths are quite common in the coal mining industry.
- occupational training
- The survey studied the incidence of cancer among different occupational groups.
- In the next year, the hospital turned over one more room for patients and two others for physical and occupational therapy.
- In Western society an individual's marital status and occupational status are achieved.
- Most occupational schemes pay a proportion of your earnings when you retire and are called final earnings schemes.
- The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure, in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry.
- The job market rewards those with more occupational skills.
- The second structural dimension was occupational control, analysed as professional integration or professional marginality.
- These traditions include ceremonies of initiation, standard dress, leisure activities, music, occupational legends and lore.
- This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages.
Longman Language Activatorrelating to a job
· The salary's not very good, but there's a lot of job satisfaction.· It says in the job description that we're only supposed to work 35 hours a week.· The bad thing about working at holiday resorts is that there's no job security.
relating to a job such as teaching, medicine, or law, for which you need special training and have to pass special examinations: · The RSA course in teaching is a recognized professional qualification.· Lawyers have their own professional association, which operates a strict code of conduct.· You are advised to seek professional legal advice if in any doubt about the contract details.
relating to the particular type of job that you do: · Occupational injuries and even deaths are quite common in the coal mining industry.· The survey studied the incidence of cancer among different occupational groups.
vocational training or schools teach you the skills to do a particular job: · Not all the courses are purely vocational.· The Job Corps is a vocational training program for low-income youths.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Getting injured is an occupational hazard (=a risk that always exists in a particular job or activity) of the sport.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
relating to or caused by your job: Getting injured is an occupational hazard (=a risk that always exists in a particular job or activity) of the sport. (=one that your employer pays)· I've been paying into the company pension scheme for 20 years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Work is under way in other occupational areas and further Information Sheets are in preparation.· The specialist options would cover the following occupational areas.· They provide a very general introduction to particular occupational areas.
· According to this study, clerical work is merely an occupational category through which men pass.· Secondly, membership in these occupational categories tells us little about the wealth of the person concerned.· The total population and its distribution into socioeconomic classes, income or occupational categories must be known.
· Rather than learning how to do an art or a craft that could be turned into some kind of occupational choice.
· The experience of retirement is also divided on the basis of occupational class.
· The Barringtons vividly demonstrate that the village as an occupational community declined because the underlying economic base could no longer support it.· This subculture represented the core of the occupational community.· The new social divisions in the rural community tend to cut across the old class divides of the former occupational community.
· The miners and the police share occupational cultures in which solidarity and toughness were highly valued.
· I should like to know whether there are any occupational diseases to which hackers are prone.
· The five lowest paid occupational groups all experienced rises of income in real terms ranging from 2 to 7 percent.· In this way professions can control rival occupational groups which might threaten their dominance of a section of the market.· Some of the occupational groups which claim professional status lack many of the attributes of professionalism.· Thus differences in pay and prestige between occupational groups may be due to differences in their power rather than their functional importance.· For example, the size of agricultural labourers' families, one of the poorest paid occupational groups, remained high.· Identifying the specific concrete practice of an occupational group is, of course, a theoretical as well as an empirical task.· This led to the social development of new occupational groups to help in the production and transportation of the agricultural goods.· Technological innovations occur and new professional and occupational groups arise, providing opportunities for new forms of domination.
· Therefore, hepatitis B represents a significant occupational hazard to all workers who have contact with blood or body fluids.· We all know that in contemporary science the greatest occupational hazard is simultaneous discovery.· This is an occupational hazard shared by sportswriters and opinion pollsters.· By the early seventies both were considered unremarkable occupational hazards of life in the gay fast lane.· Getting injured is an occupational hazard.· Loss of concentration, a complete lack of ability to focus, was the chief occupational hazard of the trading floor.· Such questions from the likes of nosy old hacks like me are an occupational hazard of the famous.· The data on occupational hazards and wage differentials, used by Thaler and Rosen, suffer from several problems: 1.
· Many authorities provide extensive occupational health facilities which are not available in all employment situations.· This is the province of an individual's general medical or occupational health practitioner, not of an epidemiologist.· Review the provision of occupational health services.· The principal focus of this research is the major regulatory arena of occupational health and safety.· Some one in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors.· Sixteen exhibitors displayed examples of good occupational health practices at the seminar.· It is our aim to prevent all accidents, injuries and occupational health problems.· Health and Support Questions: Does the health authority have an occupational health service which is readily accessible to all nurses?
· Tied housing therefore acted as a brake on occupational mobility.· Greater childrearing participation does not generally translate into lower occupational mobility for fathers.· These repercussions generally follow because of induced changes in patterns of migration, commuting and occupational mobility.
· There is no evidence to suggest that they made substantial wartime gains in terms of occupational pension entitlements.· There are two forms of inequality related to occupational pensions which also serve to disadvantage very elderly women, especially widows.· By contrast, only about 27 percent of women living alone had an occupational pension.· Their importance is expected to increase as higher percentages of those approaching retirement age are members of occupational pension schemes.· Coverage by occupational pension schemes is not, however, evenly distributed amongst all social classes.· Thus, for example, one of the major sources of income of elderly people is the occupational pension.· This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages.· Chief among these are employment and, linked to it, the occupational pension system and social security.
· Neither have women's organisations been particularly concerned with occupational schemes of family allowances.· Most occupational schemes pay a proportion of your earnings when you retire and are called final earnings schemes.· In the first place, there is the differential distribution of occupational schemes between men and women outlined above.· Some private sector occupational schemes are generous towards widows, especially if the death occurs in service.· Personal pensions work on a different principle from most occupational schemes or superannuation.· We welcome the provision of occupational schemes covering over 11 million workers.· This information indicates that occupational schemes provide an important coverage for many pensioners.· We will establish a review of the framework of law and regulation within which occupational schemes operate.
· Analysing occupations to determine key functions and related occupational standards.· A series of computer databases has been produced, matching open learning material to the occupational standards for different sectors of industry.· The core of the database, however, is an analysis of the extent to which material covers the occupational standards.· The land and sea based sector has been very active in the development of occupational standards.· This will be further enhanced by the identification of the occupational standards by appropriate Lead Bodies.
· In Western society an individual's marital status and occupational status are achieved.· Finally, it is possible to compare the findings for men and women with similar occupational status.
· Table 1 shows changes in the occupational structure between 1911 and 1971.· Table 2 shows the occupational structure in 1981, while Figure 1 shows changes between 1979 and 1985.· As well as age differences, ethnic groups also show differences in their occupational structure and family patterns.· Rapid changes in the occupational structure, facilitated by educational expansion, have increased the overall chances of entering higher-ranking occupations.· In addition, there is still considerable social closure and self-recruitment at the very top of the occupational structure.· The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure, in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry.· Using techniques such as discriminant analysis and cluster analysis, a model is being developed which represents the occupational structure for women.
· The comparison of results in groups D and E highlights the important assessment role of occupational therapists as cited by other workers.· An occupational therapist can help with motor or sensory reactivity and processing difficulties.· The patient with perceptual problems may be treated by the physiotherapist and the occupational therapist simultaneously, to help his overall awareness.· One of our friends with the same type of arthritis has been helped by an occupational therapist.· A physiotherapist and occupational therapist are attached.· Medina also works for an occupational therapist in Bethesda as an equipment technician, according to court papers.· The length of the time that the occupational therapists take to complete their investigations is also down to about three months.· Of these closely related professions, an occupational therapist is a better choice to evaluate fine-motor weaknesses.
· In other words, they needed release from stress, and occupational therapy.· She also takes part in physical and occupational therapy programs at the Kennedy Krieger Institute for children.· The two charities have worked successfully together, advancing occupational therapy in the drug detoxification centres.· In the next year, the hospital turned over one more room for patients and two others for physical and occupational therapy.· Microcomputers and assessment in occupational therapy.· Community health services for people with disabilities, such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy, are provided by Bassetlaw trust.· Sussexdown is a happy place, run by caring staff who provide a full 24-hour nursing service, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.· The Therapy Wing has provided much improved facilities for occupational therapy and physiotherapy.
occupational pension schemes an occupational health centre occupational disease Getting injured is an occupational hazard (=a risk that always exists in a particular job or activity) of the sport.—occupationally adverb