Fight vs. Occupation: What's the Difference?

To attempt to harm or gain power over an adversary by blows or with weapons.

An activity that serves as one's regular source of livelihood; a vocation.

(Sports) To engage in a boxing match or other similar contest.

An activity engaged in especially as a means of passing time; an avocation.

To engage in a quarrel; argue

The act or process of holding or possessing a place.

To strive vigorously and resolutely, as in trying to overcome something; contend

The state of being held or possessed.

To contend with or oppose with violence or in battle.

Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces.

To wage or carry on (a battle).

The military government exercising control over an occupied nation or territory.

To contend for, as by combat

An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.

(Sports) To take part in a boxing match or other similar contest with (an opponent).

The act, process or state of possessing a place.

To participate in (a boxing match or other similar contest).

The control of a country or region by a hostile military and/or paramilitary force.

To cause (a boxer or other contestant) to fight in a match.

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.

To contend with or struggle against

That which occupies or engages the time and attention.

To try to prevent the development or success of

The principal business of one's life; the principal work by which one earns one's livelihood; vocation; employment; profession; calling; trade; avocation; as, these days many people continue to practice their occupation well into their seventies.

To try to extinguish (an uncontrolled fire).

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

To make (one's way) by struggle or striving

The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power

A confrontation between opposing groups in which each attempts to harm or gain power over the other, as with bodily force or weapons.

Any activity that occupies a person's attention;

A physical conflict between two or more individuals.

The act of occupying or taking possession of a building;

A boxing match.

The period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied;

A contest in kickboxing, any of the mixed martial arts, or a similar sport.

A quarrel or conflict

A struggle to achieve an objective

The power or inclination to fight; pugnacity

(intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

(reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.

(intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.

(transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).

(transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

(transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.

To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

(intransitive) Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.

An occasion of fighting.

(archaic) A battle between opposing armies.

A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.

(sports) A boxing or martial arts match.

A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.

(uncountable) The will or ability to fight.

(obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming.

To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; - followed by with or against.

To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.

To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.

To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.

To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.

A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.

A struggle or contest of any kind.

Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.

A screen for the combatants in ships.

The act of fighting; any contest or struggle;

An intense verbal dispute;

A boxing match;

A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;

An aggressive willingness to compete;

Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight;

Fight against or resist strongly;

Make a strenuous or labored effort;

Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for;