vocation
/voʊˈkeɪ·ʃən/ n [C]Definition
› a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you give much of your time and energy: It wasn’t until "The North American Review" published his story that he embraced writing as a vocation.
(Definition of vocation n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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