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[ UK /ˌævəkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌævəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an auxiliary activity

How To Use avocation In A Sentence

  • So Frances Hodgson Rondel must, one way and another, have got quite an earful about Professor Shandy's strange avocation. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • I've worked with a lot of good folks over my career, and I appreciate the opportunity afforded to me in this 'avocation' to have worked alongside each of them. High Plains Journal: Ag News
  • Something curious to the unaccustomed eye, these curling, clutching, digitated members raised above their usual range and common avocations, suddenly endowed with speech, and holding forth there in the silent upper air for the whole human economy. The Convert
  • The first concerns individuals engaged in occupations or avocations in which chasing the spotlight and thriving on the adulation of others are not only appropriate and adaptive but a sine qua non for success.
  • I would not like to hurt your feelings by calling your avocation a trade! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
  • Now, you've studied particularly the writings, the love letters of people who actually write as an avocation.
  • Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission, when he might have pursued them uninterruptedly without neglect of other avocations. Camilla
  • Not bad for an incidental photographer who took up photography mostly as a necessity rather than an avocation!
  • Now _calling_ does not mean 'avocation' or 'employment,' as I perhaps need scarcely explain, but the divine fact of our having been summoned by Him to be His. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
  • Food and interior design have always been avocations of mine.
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