Occupation or Discipline
occupation Audio
oc·cu·pa·tion [ ok-yuh-pey-shuhn ]
Subclass of:
Socioeconomic Factors
Definitions related to occupations:
  • Crafts, trades, professions, or other means of earning a living.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The principal activity that a person does to earn money.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (employee job) A code specifying the job performed by the employee for the employer. For example, accountant, programmer analyst, patient care associate, staff nurse, etc.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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