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1. The particular occupation for which you are trained
   "If it weren't for John Newton's advice that politics was his vocation, Wilberforce might well have been an obscure country cleric";
   - career, calling
    
2. A body of people doing the same kind of work
   - occupational group

Derived forms: vocations

Type of: body, business, job, line, line of work, occupation

Encyclopedia: Vocation, Ecclesiastical and Religious