- verboccupy (verb) · occupies (third person present) · occupied (past tense) · occupied (past participle) · occupying (present participle)
- reside or have one's place of business in (a building):"the apartment she occupies in Manhattan"
- fill or take up (a space or time):"two long windows occupied almost the whole wall"
- be situated in or at (a place or position in a system or hierarchy):"on the corporate ladder, they occupy the lowest rungs"
- hold (a position or job):"a very different job from any that he had occupied before"
- (be occupied with/in)fill or preoccupy (the mind or thoughts):"her mind was occupied with alarming questions"
- keep (someone) busy and active:"Sarah occupied herself taking the coffee cups over to the sink"
- take control of (a place, especially a country) by military conquest or settlement:"the region was occupied by Britain during World War I"
- enter, take control of, and stay in (a building) illegally and often forcibly, especially as a form of protest:"the workers occupied the factory"
OriginMiddle English: formed irregularly from Old French occuper, from Latin occupare ‘seize’. A now obsolete vulgar sense ‘have sexual relations with’ seems to have led to the general avoidance of the word in the 17th and most of the 18th century.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- reside or have one's place of business in (a building):
- fill or preoccupy (the mind or thoughts):
- take control of (a place, especially a country) by military conquest or settlement:
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