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Meanings of avocation in English
Catalan
avocació de competències Spanish
avocación Synonyms
Examples for "pursuit"
Examples for "pursuit"
1
That pursuit lasted 15 minutes and involved at least three police cars.
2
How far is too far in the pursuit of the dream body?
3
Mr Erdogan vowed Turkey would continue in its pursuit of the truth.
4
One animal had bilateral NOT lesions and lost pursuit for 4 days.
5
Natural athletic ability often doesn't accept the straightjacket of a single pursuit.
1
She said lockdown changed her art from a hobby to a business.
2
He said Ulster Wool has given him a career and a hobby.
3
Thank you, she says, scampering off to pick up a new hobby.
4
Use the Internet and scholarly sources to learn more about your hobby.
5
He also turned his hobby - politics - into a second career.
1
The Nürnberg defender was able to continue after treatment on the sideline.
2
I'm traveling every week to do sideline reporting this year for Fox.
3
People often ask me why I have an attitude on the sideline.
4
Diplomats say Kagame is clearing out the stables to sideline possible threats.
5
On one sideline, steelworkers' friends and families gathered to cheer their gladiators.
1
The summary for policymakers has to be agreed, line-by-line, by 115 countries.
2
On a line-by-line level, furthermore, the prose is limpidly succinct and evocative.
3
It's usually when a bill gets debated line-by-line with editing suggestions made.
4
It doesn't make narrative sense to divide this song up line-by-line.
5
Kanu takes it to the by-line and the cut-back finds Pires.
1
On top of that, recreational outdoor activity-andreally any spare-timeactivity-isa pretty new idea in Israel.
Usage of avocation in English
1
Pardon me, Madam; that is the avocation of a man of taste.
2
After the death of her mistress, Isopel carried on the same avocation.
3
Others, intoxicated by their passions, live in a perpetual avocation of thought.
4
Princess, I understand that it is your avocation to be a horse-breaker.
5
It's all part of the job, he said of his beloved avocation.
6
His statesmanship was discontinuous, being an interesting avocation rather than a career.
7
Carpentry was Tim's vocation, but fiddling was his avocation and dear delight.
8
They were a gay group of men, and hospitality was their avocation.
9
The avocation should be far removed from the nature of the regular work.
10
We might speak of the discussion of illness as the Beckman family avocation.
11
Bernardo and Francis pursued their avocation in a very different manner.
12
He threw aside his peaceful avocation and joined the Confederate army.
13
Winona viewed the latest avocation of her charge with little enthusiasm.
14
We are here because we have the avocation of nut growing.
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Teaching was an avocation with her and not a bread and butter necessity.
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Tatoucheff plays the piano with considerable skill but his real avocation is painting.
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