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occasion   (TTS Sound)

The noun occasion has 5 senses

• juncture, occasion -- (an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions")


• affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function -- (a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions")


• occasion -- (reason; "there was no occasion for complaint")


• occasion -- (the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday")


• occasion -- (an opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill")

The verb occasion has 1 sense

• occasion -- (give occasion to)