Advanced Vocabulary for TOEFL - Professional Life and Occupations

to stop a meeting, trial, or game in order to resume it sometime later

to meet or bring together a group of people for an official meeting

requiring a lot of mental effort and hard work

involving or done by two or more parties working together toward a shared goal

extremely tiring and demanding strenuous effort and perseverance

extremely busy and chaotic

repeatedly starting and stopping, in short, irregular intervals

(of work) not requiring special skills, often considered unimportant and poorly paid

requiring a lot of effort and time

performed alone, without the involvement or companionship of others

(of a plane, ship, or boat) hired for a special purpose

a skilled craftsperson who creates objects partly or entirely by hand

an officer in a court of law whose responsibility is to keep order, watch prisoners, etc.

a person whose responsibility is to manage the finances of a school, college, or university

an official appointed by a government to represent that government in a foreign city

‌a person, especially an official, whose role or job is to kill convicted people as a means of punishment

a person whose profession is to kill certain types of animals or insects that are not wanted in a place

a person whose job is to find and approach skillful people that fit a specific job and persuade them to take a higher position

a person whose job or task is to collect money for a charity, cause, or an organization

a person whose job is to train or coach someone important, especially an athlete

someone who operates a machine, especially an industrial one

a skilled craftsman who works with stone, brick, or concrete to build structures such as walls, buildings, etc.

a person, particularly a woman, whose occupation is helping a woman during childbirth

someone who prepares dead bodies for burial or cremation and arranges funerals as their job

(in the US) a person who works as the head of an urban police department

an executive officer whose rank is just below the rank of the president of a country and who can act in place of the president in certain cases to fulfill presidential duties

the minimum number of people that must be present for a meeting to officially begin or for decisions to be made

an association of people who work in the same industry or have similar goals or interests

a reduction in one's rank, position, or status, often as a form of punishment

a person who works compulsively and finds it hard to stop working to do other things