vocation vo‧ca‧tion [vəʊˈkeɪʆn ǁ voʊ-] noun [countable] JOBS
a job, especially one that involves helping people, that you do because you enjoy it or because you have a strong feeling that it is the purpose of your life to do it:
• As a nurse, she felt she had found her vocation.
• Sam had missed his vocation - he would have made a perfect lawyer.
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vocation UK US /vəʊˈkeɪʃən/ noun [C]
► 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.
Financial and business terms. 2012.