occasion
 oc·ca·sion (ə-kāʹzhən)n.
1.
a. An event or happening; an incident.
b. The time at which an event occurs.
2. A significant event.
3. A favorable or appropriate time or juncture; an opportunity. See Synonyms at opportunity.
4. Something that brings on or precipitates an action, condition, or event, especially the immediate cause. See Synonyms at cause.
5. Something that provides a reason or justification; a ground.
6. A need created by a particular circumstance: “He must buy what he has little occasion for” (Laurence Sterne).
7. A large or important social gathering.
8. occasions Archaic. Personal requirements or necessities.tr.v. oc·ca·sioned, oc·ca·sion·ing, oc·ca·sions
To provide occasion for; cause: “The year's annual reports occasion an especially revealing glimpse of how corporations lend... embellishment to the stark numbers of the comptroller's office” (Mark Muro). Idiom:on occasion
From time to time; now and then. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin occāsiō, occāsiōn-, from occāsus, past participle of occidere, to fall : ob-, down; see ob- + cadere, to fall; See kad- in Indo-European Roots.]
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