Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • As respects a vocation, occupation, or trade.

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  • adverb In a vocational way.

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  • adverb affecting the pursuit of a vocation or occupation

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Examples

  • I think you have to understand also that everybody is not academically bound for a topnotch college, and some of the electives prepare our students who are more vocationally oriented, and those are, generally, the electives that get cut first.

    New Jersey School District Loses 80 Educators 2010

  • If you are the kind of person who is motivated by transcendent values and care more about the real things in life, as opposed to the things that do not last, you are more likely to see whatever you do, vocationally or avocationally, as having value beyond its just being a “job.”

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • But even as fiction has become a common pastime pursuit for the vocationally undecided idly rich (re MFA prgs), its viability as a commercial venture has fallen further than ever.

    Death of fiction 2010

  • I think you have to understand also that everybody is not academically bound for a topnotch college, and some of the electives prepare our students who are more vocationally oriented, and those are, generally, the electives that get cut first.

    New Jersey School District Loses 80 Educators 2010

  • If you are the kind of person who is motivated by transcendent values and care more about the real things in life, as opposed to the things that do not last, you are more likely to see whatever you do, vocationally or avocationally, as having value beyond its just being a “job.”

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • Students whose parents are engaged in their children's educational experience do better academically, socially and vocationally regardless of economic status.

    Arva Rice: Cheesehead State of Mind: Taking Cues from Wisconsin in NYC Arva Rice 2011

  • As someone who is vocationally spiritual, I welcome openness and dissemination of information.

    Rev. Malcolm Boyd: Write A Letter Or Send An E-mail? Rev. Malcolm Boyd 2012

  • As someone who is vocationally spiritual, I welcome openness and dissemination of information.

    Rev. Malcolm Boyd: Write A Letter Or Send An E-mail? Rev. Malcolm Boyd 2012

  • Students whose parents are engaged in their children's educational experience do better academically, socially and vocationally regardless of economic status.

    Arva Rice: Cheesehead State of Mind: Taking Cues from Wisconsin in NYC Arva Rice 2011

  • I think you have to understand also that everybody is not academically bound for a topnotch college, and some of the electives prepare our students who are more vocationally oriented, and those are, generally, the electives that get cut first.

    New Jersey School District Loses 80 Educators 2010

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