Avocation

1. n. Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one’s time; usual employment; vocation.
2. n. A calling away; a diversion.
3. n. That which calls one away from one’s regular employment or vocation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.