Usually means: Happening or done infrequently, irregularly.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word occasional:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. occasional: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. occasional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occasional: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. occasional: Collins English Dictionary
  5. occasional: Vocabulary.com
  6. Occasional, occasional: Wordnik
  7. occasional: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. occasional: Wiktionary
  9. occasional: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. occasional: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. occasional: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Occasional, occasional: Dictionary.com
  13. occasional: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Occasional: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. occasional: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. occasional: Rhymezone
  17. Occasional: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. occasional: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. occasional: Free Dictionary
  20. occasional: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. occasional: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occasional: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occasional: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See occasionals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Occurring or appearing irregularly from time to time, but not often; incidental.
adjective:  Created for a specific occasion.
adjective:  Intended for use as the occasion requires.
adjective:  Acting in the indicated role from time to time.
noun:  A person who does something only occasionally.

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