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Avocation logo #10101) An auxiliary activity 2) By-line 3) Diversion or distraction 4) Hobby 5) Interest 6) Pastime 7) Pursuit 8) Sideline 9) Spare-time activity
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Avocation

Avocation logo #10101) Hobby
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Avocation

Avocation logo #21000 An avocation is an activity that one engages in as a hobby outside one`s main occupation. There are many examples of people whose professions were the ways that they made their livings, but for whom their activities outside of their workplaces were their true passions in life. Occasionally, as with Lord Baden-Powell and others, a person who pursu....
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Avocation

Avocation logo #21002• (n.) Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one`s time; usual employment; vocation. • (n.) That which calls one away from one`s regular employment or vocation. • (n.) A calling away; a diversion.
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avocation

avocation logo #209731. A calling away; a diversion. 'Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin.' (South) ... 2. That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation. 'Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations.' (Fuller) 'By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnis...
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Avocation

Avocation logo #20972Av`o·ca'tion noun [ Latin avocatio .] 1. A calling away; a diversion. [ Obsolete or Archaic] « Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South. » 2. That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation. « Heaven is his...
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avocation

avocation logo #20400[n] - an auxiliary activity
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avocation

avocation logo #21009avocation 1. A hobby or pastime; not one's work. 2. The opposite of one's career or occupation. 3. Etymology: 'a calling away from one's occupation', from Latin avocationem, 'a calling away'; and Latin avocare, 'to call away'; from ad-, 'away' plus vocare, 'to call'.
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avocation

avocation logo #20974by-line noun an auxiliary activity
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avocation

avocation logo #21199something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, esp. for pleasure; hobby: Our doctor's avocation is painting. · a person's regular occupation, calling, or vocation. · diversion or distraction.
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avocation

avocation logo #23665 an auxiliary activity
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avocation

avocation logo #23665 an auxiliary activity
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avocation

avocation logo #23665 an auxiliary activity
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avocation

avocation logo #23665[Intelligent words] an auxiliary activity
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