Craft vs. Occupation

A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example by tinkers.

a job or profession

Skill in doing or making something, as in the arts; proficiency.

the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force

Skill in evasion or deception; guile.

the action of living in or using a building or other place

An occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity or skilled artistry.

for the sole use of the occupiers of the land concerned

The practitioners of such an occupation or trade considered as a group.

An activity that serves as one's regular source of livelihood; a vocation.

pl. craft A boat, ship, aircraft, or spacecraft.

An activity engaged in especially as a means of passing time; an avocation.

crafts Items made by craftspeople.

The act or process of holding or possessing a place.

To make or construct (something) with care or ingenuity.

The state of being held or possessed.

Strength; power; might; force .

Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces.

(uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.

The military government exercising control over an occupied nation or territory.

Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .

An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.

Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .

The act, process or state of possessing a place.

(obsolete) Occult art, magic .

The control of a country or region by a hostile military and/or paramilitary force.

A work or product of art .

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.

(collective or plural) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .

That which occupies or engages the time and attention.

A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .

The principal business of one's life; the principal work by which one earns one's livelihood; vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade; avocation; as, these days many people continue to practice their occupation well into their seventies.

Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

(uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .

the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power

A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .

any activity that occupies a person's attention;

(countable) A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .

the act of occupying or taking possession of a building;

A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .

the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied;

(nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.

Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.

(figurative) A woman.

Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

To make by hand and with much skill.

To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).

(video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Strength; might; secret power.

Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.

Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.

Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.

A vessel; vessels of any kind; - generally used in a collective sense.

To play tricks; to practice artifice.

the skilled practice of a practical occupation;

a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

people who perform a particular kind of skilled work;

skill in an occupation or trade

shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

make by hand and with much skill;