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
- The conqueror is the principal occupying power.
- The Ameru occupy the East and North of the Mountain.