any activity that occupies a person's attention; "he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game"
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concern
something that interests you because it is important or affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern"
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job
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee: "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the sample