OCCUPATIONAL GROUP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A body of people doing the same kind of work

Synonyms:

occupational group; vocation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("occupational group" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupational group"):

profession (the body of people in a learned occupation)

press corps (a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics)