how to pronounce occasion

/əˈkɛɪ.ʒən/

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occasion is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of occasion in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… this is a solemn occasion at what is a …”

meaning of occasion

An occasion is a special event or a time when something happens.

occasion frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word occasion occurs in english on average 53 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics occasion can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that occasion can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;