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Meaning of occasion

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  occasion
      n 1: 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" [syn: {juncture}, {occasion}]
      2: 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" [syn: {affair},
         {occasion}, {social occasion}, {function}, {social function}]
      3: reason; "there was no occasion for complaint"
      4: the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th
         birthday"
      5: an opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion
         for her to demonstrate her skill"
      v 1: give occasion to

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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