occasion

Other users have misspelling occasion as:

1. occassion 17.52%
2. occation 8.6%
3. ocassion 4.78%
4. ocasion 4.46%
5. ocation 2.87%
6. occasio 2.07%
7. occasi 1.27%
8. Other 58.43%

Definitions of occasion

noun

1. the time of a particular event
2. an opportunity to do something
3. an event that occurs at a critical time
4. reason
5. a vaguely specified social event

verb

1. give occasion to

Examples of occasion

1. Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
2. Your behaviour has occasioned us a great deal of anxiety.
3. Advancing age has occasionally brought resolution, more often just a little understanding, to many of these riddles, but not necessarily to the resilient ambiguity of history.

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