occupy
see also: Occupy
Pronunciation Verb
Occupy
Proper noun
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see also: Occupy
Pronunciation Verb
occupy
- (transitive, of time) To take or use.
- To fill.
- The film occupied three hours of my time.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
- The film occupied me for three hours.
- I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.
- To hold the attention of.
- I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.
- To fill.
- (transitive) To take or use space.
- To fill space.
- The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.
- To live or reside in.
- The better apartments were already occupied.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get{{...}
- (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- 1940, in The China monthly review, volumes 94-95, page 370 :
- The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […]
- 1975, Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643, page 330 :
- Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
- 1983, Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902, page 462:
- One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied, but could not be held.
- 1991, Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe, page 333:
- Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.
- 2006, John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, page 496:
- Spain occupied, but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.
- 1940, in The China monthly review, volumes 94-95, page 370 :
- (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
- To fill space.
- (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
- 1590s, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050213091755/http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Shakespeare/2HenryIV/2HenryIV2_7.htm II.iv]
- God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
- 1867, Robert Nares A Glossary
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy. 2 Hen. IV, ii, 4.
- Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
- For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy his land. B. Jons. Epigr., 117.
- Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy, nature, and the like. Ibid., Discoveries, vol. vii, p. 119.
- It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- 1590s, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050213091755/http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Shakespeare/2HenryIV/2HenryIV2_7.htm II.iv]
- (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
- Bible, Book of Ezekiel xxvii. 9
- All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (humanist) (tr.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (book) (in Latin), 1516
- not able to occupy their old crafts
- Bible, Book of Ezekiel xxvii. 9
- (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
- Bible, Book of Exodus xxxviii. 24
- all the gold that was occupied for the work
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (humanist) (tr.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (book) (in Latin), 1516
- They occupy not money themselves.
- Bible, Book of Exodus xxxviii. 24
- (to possess or use the time or capacity of) employ, busy
- (to have sexual intercourse with) coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- French: occuper
- German: in Anspruch nehmen, belegen
- Portuguese: ocupar
- Russian: занима́ть
- Spanish: ocupar
- French: occuper, habiter
- German: bewohnen
- Italian: occupare
- Portuguese: ocupar
- Russian: занима́ть
- Spanish: ocupar
- French: occuper
- German: besetzen, okkupieren
- Portuguese: ocupar
- Russian: оккупи́ровать
- Spanish: ocupar
- French: occuper
- Russian: занима́ть
Occupy
Proper noun
- Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”)
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