Occupation vs. Business — What's the Difference?

A job or profession

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). Simply put, it is "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit."Having a business name does not separate the business entity from the owner, which means that the owner of the business is responsible and liable for debts incurred by the business.

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

The activity of buying and selling commodities, products, or services

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

The amount or volume of this activity

For the sole use of the occupiers of the land concerned

The variety of this activity in which a person is engaged

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

A specific occupation or pursuit

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

A commercial enterprise or establishment

The act or process of holding or possessing a place.

Commercial dealings; patronage

The state of being held or possessed.

One's rightful or proper concern or interest

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

Something involving one personally

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

Serious work or endeavor

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.

An affair or matter

The act, process or state of possessing a place.

An incidental action performed by an actor on the stage to fill a pause between lines or to provide interesting detail.

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

(Informal) Strong verbal criticism; scolding

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.

(Informal) Urination or defecation

That which occupies or engages the time and attention.

(Obsolete) The condition of being busy.

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.

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

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

(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

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

(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

Any activity that occupies a person's attention;

(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.

The act of occupying or taking possession of a building;

(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

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

(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.

(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

(countable) A particular situation or activity.

(countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.

(uncountable) Something involving one personally.

Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

(acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.

The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.

(slang) Disruptive shenanigans.

(Australian Aboriginal) matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)

Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.

Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.

Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.

Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.

Affair; concern; matter; - used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.

The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

Care; anxiety; diligence.

A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it;

The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects;

Business concerns collectively;

The volume of business activity;

A rightful concern or responsibility;

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

An immediate objective;

Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect;

Customers collectively;