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Event that results in bodily injury and/or property damage to a third party. A clause that is common to most liability insurance policies stipulates that all bodily injuries and/or property damages resulting from the same general conditions are interpreted as resulting from one occurrence and thus subject to the policy limits per occurrence.

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noun

1. The condition or fact of being present: presence. See be.
2. Something that happens: circumstance, event, happening, incident, occasion, thing. See happen.
3. Something significant that happens: circumstance, development, episode, event, happening, incident, news, occasion, thing. See happen.

In insurance terminology, an accident or a continuous exposure to conditions which result in injury or damage, provided the injury or damage is neither expected nor intended.

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IN BRIEF: An event.

They never spoke of the strange occurrence on that bright summer morning down by the lake.

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In epidemiological terms means frequency of a disease without defining incidence or prevalence.

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• Insurance - occurrence: event or events, sometimes ongoing, constituting single loss

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See words rhyming with "occurrent."

Common misspelling(s) of occurrence

• occurance
• ocurrence
• ocurrance
• occurrence
• occurrence

Dansk (Danish)
n. - hændelse, begivenhed, forekomst

Nederlands (Dutch)
voorval, gebeurtenis, voorkomen, geval van, verschijning

Français (French)
n. - fait, occurrence, cas, apparition

Deutsch (German)
n. - Begebenheit, Vorkommnis, Auftreten

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - περιστατικό, επεισόδιο, συμβάν, ύπαρξη, διαβίωση ή εμφάνιση (σε συγκεκριμένη περιοχή), συντυχία, φαινόμενο, (Βρετ., καθομ.) (σοβαρό) συμβάν αστυνομικού δελτίου

Italiano (Italian)
evento, occorrenza, presenza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - ocorrência (f)

Русский (Russian)
происшествие, явление

Español (Spanish)
n. - acontecimiento, suceso, caso, presencia, existencia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - händelse, förekomst

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
发生, 发现, 事件

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 發生, 發現, 事件

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 사건, 발생

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 発生, 産出, できごと, 事件

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حادثه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מקרה, מאורע, היקרות‬

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