The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word POSSESSION
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More clues leading to the result POSSESSION
- State requiring spiritual and political liberation?
- Soprano rejected term of ownership
- Ownership of society’s work is returned before hearing
- Title and group’s sound endlessly reviewed
- Something one has put on show, initially, before meeting
- Holding power opening very big meeting
- Occupation or job curtailed by court hearing?
- Control post office's meeting
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The straight part
We know that "Occupation" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case occupation = possession.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does POSSESSION mean?
POSSESSION noun- Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
- Something that is owned.
- Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
- A territory under the rule of another country.
- The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
- The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
- Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
- To invest with property.