on occasion
Now and then
On occasion means sometimes or now and then—not regularly, but when circumstances call for it: On occasion, she still visits her childhood home.
The phrase suggests infrequency without specifying how rare: He drinks on occasion but wouldn't call himself a drinker.
- now and thenAt infrequent intervals
- every once in a whileAt irregular intervals
- once in a whileAt irregular intervals
- sporadicallyAt irregular intervals
- every so oftenAt scattered intervals
intermittently · seldom · rarely · few and far between · infrequently · now and again · once in a blue moon · sometimes · irregularly · off and on · periodically · hit or miss · at times · ad hoc · nonrecurring · episodic · every now and then · happenstance
- frequency wordsalways, never, often, sometimes, usually
- infrequencyrarely, seldom, infrequent, infrequently, sometimes
frequency
on occasionconstantly
At all times
always · continually · perpetually · incessantly · all the time
occasion, occasional, occasionally, occasions, occasioned, occasioning