Occupation may refer to:

• the principal activity (job or calling) that earns money for a person (see profession, business)
• the periods of time following a nation's territory invasion by controlling enemy troops (see belligerent occupation)
• any activity that occupies an important portion of a person's attention (see fan)
• the act of settling into of a building (see ownership)
• the act of settling onto an uninhabited tract of land
• the temporary forceful occupation of a (typically governmental) symbolic building, as a sign of protest