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Occasions

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noun

a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.

a special or important time, event, ceremony, celebration, etc.: His birthday will be quite an occasion.

a convenient or favorable time, opportunity, or juncture: This slack period would be a good occasion to take inventory.

the immediate or incidental cause or reason for some action or result: What is the occasion for this uproar?

(in the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead) the coincidence of the eternal objects forming a specific point-event.

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occasions, Obsolete.

needs or necessities.

necessary business matters: to go about one's lawful occasions.

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verb (used with object)

to give occasion or cause for; bring about.

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Idiom

on occasion, now and then; from time to time; occasionally: She visits New York on occasion.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English occasioun < Old French occasion < Latin occāsiōn- (stem of occāsiō), equivalent to oc- oc- + cās(us) (past participle of cadere to fall, befall) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

pre·oc·ca·sioned, adjective

Synonyms
3. chance, opening. 4. motive, inducement, influence. See cause. 7. motivate, originate, produce, create.

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Kennedy from boarding airplanes on five occasions because his name resembled an alias used by a suspected.

One wrote of her failure to achieve tenure on three separate occasions.

On several occasions before she died, other elephants had tried to help her stand.

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Kennedy from boarding airplanes on five occasions because his name resembled an alias used by a suspected.

One wrote of her failure to achieve tenure on three separate occasions.

On several occasions before she died, other elephants had tried to help her stand.

On rare occasions the auditorium may be available during business hours.

RT is also known to be caused by yeasts and can also be detected in other occasions as well.

We make them for special occasions and they are as harmful as an occasional doughnut.

Admittedly, we've asked for the same on occasions when a little spirit of conjecture would be welcomed.

Normally stored in a climate- controlled vault in the museum, the case is taken out of the vault only on special occasions.

Certain factors can cause dry eyes, which in my case caused a major setback on two different occasions.

It is therefore possible to predict what should happen on future occasions.

Kava is mixed with water in the bowl and is drunk using coconut shells at social occasions.

On rare occasions it may be that they aren't total sociopaths, and they actually do have a conscience.

However, there are occasions when even a self-employed geek needs to suck it up and dress appropriately.

It is the setting that readily comes to mind when one thinks of holidays or family occasions.

Anniversaries are one of the few occasions at which a nostalgic impulse should be left to roam unfettered.

Yet there are clearly lots of occasions when governments judge that the benefits of defaulting outweigh the costs.

And in some areas major pilgrimages are undertaken on special occasions to worship the mountains.

Unfortunately corpses have been used as verification on several occasions.

For more formal occasions or when a laptop is part of.

Memorial exhibitions are not usually the happiest of occasions.

On some rare occasions you may get lucky and have the dept chair in attendance and get the opportunity to introduce yourself.

And on some occasions the supposedly secret bidding looks rigged:.

The phrase has come to refer to those rare occasions when a second full moon appears within a single calendar month.

On extremely rare occasions a person's heart can begin to spontaneously beat following defibrillation.

Russon observed pairs of apes catching catfish on a few occasions.

He told her that she looked good, too, on the few occasions that he let her drive.

On both occasions the advertised destination of the plane changed.

All four bidders hope this will be one of those occasions.

Calendars remind us of the occasions in time to send our.

In recent years scientists have observed fish engaging in similarly brainy behavior on three occasions.

Her blood pressure dipped dangerously low on many occasions.

Gates had a sudden sinking spell late this afternoon, similar to those he has experienced on two previous occasions.

On that note, don't forget flip-flops or some other simple, slip-on shoe for precisely those occasions expatinuk lists.

On several occasions the conflict has been declared over, either by police or by the warring parties themselves.

But the team encountered difficulty in securing the left flipper, which fell off on several occasions.

The thing is, you only need all those guys on rare occasions.

Judy was a talented and imaginative poet who celebrated all occasions with her witty verses.

I've tried to talk to her about this on several occasions but she is in complete denial about the situation.

But on the rare occasions that a few brave souls have.

Keep your honeymoon and other special occasions under wraps, at first.

However, in numerous other occasions such increase is not observed.

She devotes several chapters to the correct usages of engagement and wedding occasions.

Best to save these requests for special occasions so you do not abuse the system.

One idea is to find previous occasions when big environmental changes came alongside social, political and military shifts.

On rare occasions individuals show white patches in wings.

They show emotions, intelligence, and on some occasions a sense of humor.

Brooklyn, and was attended by more enthusiasm than is usual on such inspiring occasions.

Intestinal worms have been shown to do so on many occasions.

He has performed all over the world at a variety of occasions and festivals.

Backup generators are installed precisely for such occasions.

His concern specializes in the video-taping of legal proceedings and family occasions.

But there may be occasions when there is a currency mismatch.

Not that there weren't occasions for second thoughts.

He saw them on a few occasions over a period of a few weeks.

On those occasions when a fabulous budget is fortified by.

These occasions demand industrial-strength solutions.

I've seen dead owls at the roadside on six or seven occasions.

The product line covers a broad range of occasions for the whisky drinker from every day to special moments.

In a further step, the team also force-fed males on two separate occasions with carotenoid-laced maggots.

Burmese pythons are infrequent eaters, so they're gluttons on the rare occasions when they do eat.

We record the momentous occasions and the occasional moments.

The pilot carried a hammer with him to use for such occasions.

All told he's been plucked from the ocean by rescue helicopters on five different occasions.

He has bitten one of us in the face, and has tried to bite us on a couple more occasions.

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World English Dictionary

occasions (əˈkeɪʒənz)

—*pl n*
1.	(sometimes singular) needs; necessities
2.	personal or business affairs

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Word Origin & History

occasion

late 14c., from O.Fr. occasion, from L. occasionem (nom. occasio) "opportunity, appropriate time," from occasum, pp. of occidere "fall down, go down," from ob "down, away" + cadere "to fall" (see case (1)). The notion is of a "falling together," or juncture, of circumstances.

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The verb is first attested 1520s.

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