occupy
IPA: ˈɑkjʌpaɪ
noun
- Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”)
verb
- (transitive, of time) To take or use.
- To fill.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- To hold the attention of.
- (transitive) To take or use space.
- To fill space.
- To live or reside in.
- (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
- (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
- (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
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Examples of "occupy" in Sentences
- Just the word occupy insinuates to take over without consent.
- "You can use the word "occupy" and attach it to anything and go with it."
- The word occupy also connotes presence, however, which is the precursor to love.
- Type the word "occupy" into the search field on WePay's Donations page and you'll get 360 campaigns to choose from.
- Like the word "cleave," there are two meanings involved in the word "occupy," one of which is the exact opposite of the other.
- The word "occupy" is a bit like the word "cleave," which, as Alan Watts was fond of pointing out, has two meanings, one of which is the precise opposite of the other.
- Right now, during this particular phase in history, we are watching the word "occupy" transform in definition from it's original "to fill up space," to "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
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