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vocation
NOUN:

1. a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling.

2. a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career.

3. a specified occupation, profession, or trade.

4. the work in which a person is employed; occupation.

5. the persons engaged in a particular occupation.

6. the special function of an individual or group.

of God, religion:

1. a divine call to God's service or to the Christian life.

2. a function or station in life to which one is called by God: 
the religious vocation; the vocation of marriage.

3. a special urge, inclination, or predisposition to a particular calling or career, esp a religious one.

4. such a calling or career.

5. a summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action, especially a divine call to the religious life.

6. an entry into the priesthood or a religious order.

Examples from Merriam-Webster:

This isn't just a job for me; it's a vocation; people who follow a religious vocation.  

Origin:

1400–50; late Middle English vocacio(u)n<Latin vocātiōn- (stem of vocātiō) a call, summons, equivalent to vocāt(us) past participle of vocāre to call (see -ate1) + -iōn--ion. Dictionary 2: C15: from Latin vocātiō a calling, from vocāre to call. —Dictionary.com. // 

First Known Use of vocation: 15th century. History and Etymology for vocation: Middle English vocacioun, from Anglo-French vocaciun, from Latin vocation-, vocatio summons, from vocare to call, from vox voice — more at voice. —Merriam-Webster.

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