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- Dictionaryoccupation/ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃn/
noun
- 1. a job or profession: "people in professional occupations" Similar
- 2. the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force: "the Roman occupation of Britain"
adjective
- 1. for the sole use of the occupiers of the land concerned: British "an occupation bridge"
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12 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
12 hours ago · Their long occupation, initially in varying forms of isolation as hunter-gatherers, has made the region highly diverse, second only to Africa in human genetic diversity. Settled life emerged on the subcontinent in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving gradually into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE . [32]
