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Definitions for vocational
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. vocationaladjective

    of or relating to a vocation or occupation; especially providing or undergoing training in special skills

    "vocational school"; "vocational students learning to repair a motor"

Wiktionary

  1. vocationaladjective

    of or pertaining to a vocation

  2. vocationaladjective

    that provides a special skill rather than academic knowledge

Wikipedia

  1. vocational

    A vocation (from Latin vocatio 'a call, summons') is an occupation to which a person is especially drawn or for which they are suited, trained or qualified. People can be given information about a new occupation through student orientation. Though now often used in non-religious contexts, the meanings of the term originated in Christianity.

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  1. vocational

    Vocational refers to skills, knowledge, and training related to a specific type of work or occupation. It is typically associated with practical or manual occupations and is often acquired through vocational education or on-the-job experience. The primary goal of vocational activities is to prepare individuals for a particular trade or profession.

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  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'vocational' in Adjectives Frequency: #1013

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vocational in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vocational in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of vocational in a Sentence

  1. Reverend Hkalam:

    We see that the main problem is follow-up and vocational training, because if they go back home, jobless, it's very easy to return to the drugs again.

  2. Xu Guixiang:

    If all family members have been sent to vocational training then that family must have a severe problem, i've never seen such a case.

  3. Donald Trump:

    America's vocational education, whether for high school students.... or for mid - to late - career workers should be just as innovative, dynamic and successful as our people.

  4. Ken Cuccinelli:

    This is not a vocational center, it is a concentration camp, a place where religious and ethnic minorities are subject to abuse and forced to work in heinous conditions with no recourse and no freedom. This is modern day slavery.

  5. Joshua Mitrotti:

    A vocational component is going to be very important but there has to be a political component at the heart of training offered to ex-guerrillas, about how a democracy functions, because this is about the transition of people who once held arms to becoming citizens in a democracy.

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