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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
occurrence
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unlikely scenario/occurrence
▪ They should build a new road, but that’s an unlikely scenario.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
▪ The visits to the beach became an almost daily occurrence, as Roberts searched for aurochs, oystercatchers, or crane.
▪ Grenade attacks have become an almost daily occurrence.
everyday
▪ Using such cash will eventually become an everyday occurrence for us all.
▪ These next applications deal with everyday occurrences, and neural networks are playing a part in each of them.
▪ What he wishes to do is to establish through everyday occurrences the realization within you of his existence.
▪ Demos to outsiders, if not an everyday occurrence, were not unusual.
▪ It was so long ago that it happened - it's an everyday occurrence now, people battering and killing children.
▪ Sailors needed an everyday heavenly occurrence.
▪ It was an everyday occurrence for the gentry to bed maidservants.
▪ They took near-disaster as an everyday occurrence, which it probably is.
frequent
▪ Because of the frequent occurrence of kept, this causes difficulties in quantitative analysis.
▪ Gingival hyperplasia is a frequent occurrence, especially in children and young adults.
▪ Playground fights at my London comprehensive, an austere archetypal 1960s building near Marble Arch, were frequent occurrences.
▪ Before the established use of surnames a recourse to nicknames was almost necessary and certainly of very frequent occurrence.
▪ However, complex eigenvalues and vectors are of frequent occurrence, and require special consideration.
▪ Worse, a spokesman for the Treasury implies this is a frequent occurrence.
rare
▪ This is probably a comparatively rare occurrence for small mammals, but it certainly does occur.
▪ A knock on this door, up here on the fifth floor, especially at night, is a rare occurrence.
▪ In practice parents' associations are incredibly supportive and these problems are a rare occurrence.
▪ The Millers said bears in the camp are a rare occurrence.
▪ Clearly, crime is not a rare occurrence, but it is hidden methodically, and this raises problems for research.
▪ This was, of course, an extremely rare occurrence.
▪ Policy analysis needs to be concerned with a flow of interrelated policies, with abrupt changes of direction a comparatively rare occurrence.
▪ You depict rare occurrences - like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country - as a major problem.
regular
▪ The skilful dealer represents such rare gains as a regular occurrence.
▪ Stoudamire erupted for 31 points in the kind of performance that has become a regular occurrence against the Rockets.
▪ Children do not appear on memorial brasses until the 1420s, though by the 1450s they were a regular occurrence.
▪ In our postindustrial economy, spontaneous cooperation is a regular occurrence.
▪ Parents and children are acutely vulnerable under circumstances of compulsion and emergency which are regular occurrences in residential admissions.
▪ Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers are of regular occurrence amongst these trees.
unusual
▪ She, with her brother and sister, slept that night with the Grimsdale family, a not unusual occurrence.
▪ It is the same attitude he now carries with him on the sidelines, which can lead to some unusual occurrences.
■ VERB
become
▪ Using such cash will eventually become an everyday occurrence for us all.
▪ Stoudamire erupted for 31 points in the kind of performance that has become a regular occurrence against the Rockets.
▪ The visits to the beach became an almost daily occurrence, as Roberts searched for aurochs, oystercatchers, or crane.
▪ Grenade attacks have become an almost daily occurrence.
explain
▪ It is, therefore, highly unlikely that imitation of adult models can explain their occurrence.
▪ It is not a theory invented to explain particular occurrences in the world.
▪ Such a model would be able to explain the not uncommon occurrence of people with six rather than five fingers.
prevent
▪ With less severe colonic damage, terra fullonica was able to prevent the occurrence of systemic endotoxaemia.
▪ Workers need to understand how quickly human tissue freezes, and the necessary precautions to prevent its occurrence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Earthquakes are an unusual occurrence in England but are not totally unknown.
▪ Vicious fights and arguments were a daily occurrence in the shipyards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Different patterns of clinical involvement with genetic transmission or sporadic occurrence are recognised.
▪ Gingival hyperplasia is a frequent occurrence, especially in children and young adults.
▪ Indeed, such predictions might be described in terms of the probability with which their occurrence may be estimated.
▪ It might not be the first occurrence, she realised.
▪ Nor were such executions isolated occurrences.
▪ The helium would seep up through fissures, and hence its natural occurrence near the hot springs.
▪ The key type and format should be assessed, to decide on the occurrence and frequency of runs of keys.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Occurrence

Occurrence \Oc*cur"rence\, n. [Cf. F. occurrence. See Occur.]

  1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

    Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new.
    --I. Watts.

  2. Any event or incident; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life.

    All the occurrence of my fortune.
    --Shak.

    Syn: See Event.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
occurrence

1530s, from Middle French occurrence "unexpected happening" or directly from Medieval Latin occurrentia, from Latin occurentem (nominative occurens), present participle of occurrere (see occur).

Wiktionary
occurrence

n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

WordNet
occurrence

  1. n. an event that happens [syn: happening, natural event]

  2. an instance of something occurring; "a disease of frequent occurrence"; "the occurrence (or presence) of life on other planets"

Wikipedia
Occurrence (liturgical)

Occurrence is a Catholic liturgical term that covers the process when two liturgical offices coincide on the same day.

Usage examples of "occurrence".

The Admiral having asked him about the condition of the country, the Adelantado recounted to him how Francisco Roldan had arisen with 80 men, with all the rest of the occurrences which had passed in this island, since he left it.

In the annals of the abby of Margain in far-off Wales, a monk set down in the chronicles of his monastery the story as he had heard it perhaps considerably after the occurrence, from some source now suspected of being Guillaume de Braose or Hubert de Burgh, or some of their followings.

In consequence of these lamentable occurrences, and the excited state of the northern districts of the kingdom, on the 22nd of July, Lord John Russell announced his intention of taking the requisite precautions for securing the tranquillity of the country, by placing at the hands of the magistrates a better organized constitutional force for putting the law into execution, and providing sufficient military means for supporting them in the performance of their duty.

What was probably as painful to Marie Antoinette as these occurrences themselves was the apathy with which the king regarded them.

Such a storm was a very natural occurrence, and I had no reason to be astonished at it, but somehow, fear was beginning to creep into me, and I wished myself in my room.

This cavern, from which The Shadow had dynamited a way to the Aureole shaft above, was the beginning of another trail that promised a solution to mysterious occurrences that still had Harry puzzled.

It is difficult to imagine a more satisfactory evidence than this of we occurrence of implements in the auriferous, pre-glacial, sub-basaltic gravels.

His argument is based on the occurrence of another American name, Brazil, on the Austral continent.

Many are the indications that our autocthonous predecessors saw a very great deal of the intimate habits of the flora and the fauna and the avifauna, and spoke freely of them, and attributed in their legendary many of these habitsmuch of the particular form and colour, and even habitat, to the influences of supernatural beings and occurrences.

Mather not only acknowledged that there were bewitched people but also reminded readers of the seemingly unending diversity of the invisible world, occurrences God permitted to afflict his people.

A microscopical examination of the green copper ores of secondary origin in the Clifton and Morenci district of Arizona proves brochantite to be of extremely common occurrence mostly intergrown with malachite which effectually masks its presence: it is not unlikely that the malachite of other localities will on examination be found to be intergrown with brochantite.

Such an every-day occurrence could not be expected to have any serious consequences, but alas!

Memmo could have taken no better course to avoid the troublesome consequences which this fatal meeting might have had, and he was very glad that I was with him to testify to his innocence and to the harmlessness of the occurrence.

At last I persuaded myself that what had occurred was after all in no way extraordinary, and that I would certainly have considered it at first a very common occurrence if I had not been dazzled by the wonderful beauty of the nun, and blinded by my own vanity.

The Governor was taking an Earthling for his wife, surely an odd occurrence.