OCCASION

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : juncture

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : affair , function , social function , social occasion

• (noun) reason

  "there was no occasion for complaint"

• (noun) an opportunity to do something

  "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"

• (noun) the time of a particular event

  "on the occasion of his 60th birthday"

• (verb) give occasion to

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