English-Spanish translations for occasion

• caso
• causar
  Aunque los vuelos se desvían en relativamente pocas ocasiones, reconocemos la preocupación y la inconveniencia que ello puede causar. Although the occasions on which flights are diverted are relatively few, we recognise the concern and inconvenience they may cause.
• ocasión
  La reunión de hoy es una ocasión espléndida. Today's meeting is a grand occasion.
  Yo también fui la ponente en aquella ocasión. I was also the rapporteur on that occasion.
  ¿A qué se debe eso?¿Se va a plantear en otra ocasión? Are you going to raise it on another occasion?
• ocasionar

Definition of occasion

• A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
• The time when something happens
• An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
• Something which causes something else; a cause.
• An occurrence or incident.
• Need; requirement, necessity.
• A special event or function.
• A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion
• To cause; to produce; to induce

Examples

• At this point, she seized the occasion to make her own observation
• I had no occasion to feel offended, however
• I could think of two separate occasions when she had deliberately lied to me
• a momentous occasion in the history of South Africa
• I have no occasion for firearms
• Having people round for dinner was always quite an occasion at our house
• it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity

Related words

• occasional
• occasionally
• occasionalism
• occasional table
• occasional word
• on occasion
• rise to the occasion
• singular occasion
• on the occasion of