vocation
/vəʊˈkeɪʃən/ noun [C]Definition
› a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you in this way: find/miss your vocation I feel I've found my true vocation. To work in medicine, you should have a vocation for it. → See Note job
(Definition of vocation noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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