"occupation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Besides raising crops, the settlers possessed numbers of cattle, sheep and pigs, but their most lucrative occupation was seal-fishing.
- Meanwhile, he interviews a ten year old boy as a potential dreamer, a lucrative occupation if he turns out to be suitable and undergoes training.
- The wielding of influence is Washington's most lucrative occupation - a life-support system for the many capital politicians who never go home after their incumbency ends.
- During the 1970s, the attraction of employment as domestics tended to decline, as educated and ambitious women turned to more lucrative occupations.
- They were forbidden from taking up lucrative occupations.
- Mrs Gooden lost three kiddies and three pounds a day but, instead, found herself cooking lunch for thirty-four, a far more lucrative occupation.
- Fleet owners put the numbers at $100 to $200 a day, and wonder why there is a shortage in so lucrative an occupation.
- Otherwise, they would not be lecturing in a college but pursuing some more lucrative occupation!
- As they found other, more lucrative occupations, they left nursing behind.
- Selling drugs is a more lucrative and much safer occupation than snatching purses.
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