"formal occupation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone's job or their main professional activity, such as in the sentence "He works in a bank, so his formal occupation is a financial analyst."
He lived in a seedy hotel on a small income, & had no formal occupation.
When its formal occupation of Iraq ended in 2004, the Bush administration demanded that Baghdad grant legal immunity to private contractors.
During the formal occupation of Iraq in 2003 and 2004, the American-led coallowed allowed Shiite militias to mushroom and clerics to impose Islamic rule in the south, in some places with a severity reminiscent of Afghanistan's Taliban.
The Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of an American and British resolution to end the formal occupation of Iraq on June 30 and transfer "full sovereignty" to an interim Iraqi government.
The Security Council voted in favor of an American and British resolution to end the formal occupation of Iraq on June 30 and transfer "full sovereignty" to an interim Iraqi government.
With the early transfer timed, the White House said, to give Mr. Allawi the chance to take office without the sound of car bombs going off, that formal occupation has ended.
In the model I propose, risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations.
Unlike Britain and other European countries, there are no formal occupation-based socio-economic classification systems in Cyprus.
Formal occupations for each molecular orbital can be derived by projecting the density of states of the entire system onto the molecular orbitals of TCNE and by integrating the resulting "MO DOS" up to EF.
The document, which Iraqi officials co-wrote with the Americans, was approved in March 2004 and is the most enduring political legacy of the formal American occupation.
An additional 19 seats were pre-assigned to members of the now-disbanded Iraqi Governing Council, an advisory body during the period of formal American occupation that ended seven weeks ago.
