sense of vocation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandvocation
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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vocation
noun[C or U]
uk/vəʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/voʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you in ...
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(Definition ofsenseandvocationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I agree with everybody who has said that asenseofvocationmust exceed the attraction of the reward in this job.
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Many of them are so imbued with asenseofvocationthat they are reluctant to press their claims for better conditions.
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Let us remember, also, that the men in this industry who have the greatest skills have a genuinesenseofvocation.
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But if ever there were needed asenseofvocation, it is in nursing in this particular sphere.
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He said that they had asenseofvocation, and that they should remember that.
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The doctors, too, have a greatsenseofvocationin their work of healing, but they are among the most clamorous for more money.
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That commitment andsenseofvocationare important if we are to have a successful education system.
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The majority of men and women who want to do this work desire to do it because they have a realsenseofvocation.
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There are large numbers of nurses and doctors who have thatsenseofvocationnow.
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That still does not take away the tremendous injustice of imposing upon thatsenseofvocationand conscientiousness.
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We have traded for far too long on thesenseofvocationof nurses.
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We are pleased that a propersenseofvocationis being reintroduced into the teaching profession.
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In other words, people enter the profession with a strongsenseofvocation.
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What we must do is to generate in those girls who take up nursing that finesenseofvocation.
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They are properly trained, and they are people who show asenseofvocation.
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Theirsenseofvocationshould not be exploited, but it has no parallel with our position in any way.
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When somebody has asenseofvocation, as most of us in this place do, hours sometimes have to be forgotten.
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They imposed on a worker'ssenseofvocation.
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There is no doubting the strongsenseofvocationthat midwives feel, but their morale is not good at present.
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