Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈkeɪʒən/
occasion
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance. [from 14th c.]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Romans 7:11 ↗:
- For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
- I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (
please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book IV:
- The time when something happens.
- At this point, she seized the occasion to make her own observation.
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason. [from 14th c.]
- I had no occasion to feel offended, however.
- Something which causes something else; a cause. [from 14th c.]
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
- it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
- (obsolete) An occurrence or incident. [14th-18th c.]
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred. [from 15th c.]
- I could think of two separate occasions when she had deliberately lied to me.
- a momentous occasion in the history of South Africa
- Need; requirement, necessity. [from 16th c.]
- I have no occasion for firearms.
- after we have served ourselves and our own occasions
- when my occasions took me into France
- A special event or function. [from 19th c.]
- Having people round for dinner was always quite an occasion at our house.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, / And entertain with her occasions sly.
- French: occasion
- German: Gelegenheit
- Italian: occasione
- Portuguese: ocasião
- Russian: слу́чай
- Spanish: ocasión
- Russian: по́вод
- German: Gelegenheit
- Russian: собы́тие
occasion (occasions, present participle occasioning; past and past participle occasioned)
- (transitive) To cause; to produce; to induce
- it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity
- Italian: occasionare
- Spanish: ocasionar
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