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   Oc·cu·py

   /ˈäkyəˌpī/

   

   verb

   • 1. reside or have one's place of business in (a building): "the apartment she occupies in Manhattan" Similar live ininhabitbe the tenant oftenantlodge inbe established/ensconced inestablish/ensconce oneself intake up residence inmake one's home insettle inmove intopeoplepopulatesettlestay informal:reside indwell in
   • ▪ fill or take up (a space or time): "two long windows occupied almost the whole wall" Similar take upfillfill upcoverextend overuse uputilize
   • ▪ 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" Similar holdbe infillhaveinformal:hold down
   • 2. fill or preoccupy (the mind or thoughts): "her mind was occupied with alarming questions" Similar engagebusyemploydistractabsorbengrosspreoccupyholdhold the attention ofimmerseinterestinvolveentertaindivertamusebeguile
   • ▪ keep (someone) busy and active: "Sarah occupied herself taking the coffee cups over to the sink"
   • 3. take control of (a place, especially a country) by military conquest or settlement: "the region was occupied by Britain during World War I" Similar captureseizetake possession ofconquerinvadeoverruntake overcolonizegarrisonannexdominatesubjugatehegemonizeholdcommandeerrequisitionOpposite leaveabandonquit
   • ▪ enter, take control of, and stay in (a building) illegally and often forcibly, especially as a form of protest: "the workers occupied the factory"

   Word Origin Middle 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.

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   Why is the word occupy a taboo?

   • The verb occupy, common in later Middle and early Modern English, was very infrequently used in the 17th and first two thirds of the 18th century; it has been suggested that this was due to the sense "to have sexual intercourse with (a woman)," which impinged by connotation on the less charged meanings and led to a taboo on any use of the word.

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   What does occupy mean?

   • The meaning of OCCUPY is to engage the attention or energies of. How to use occupy in a sentence.

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   What does occupied mean in English?

   • 1. To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours. 2. To dwell or reside in (an apartment, for example). 3. To hold or fill (an office or position). 4. To seize possession of and maintain control over forcibly or by conquest: The troops occupied the city. 5.

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   What does occupy a person's mind Mean?

   • to fill your time or keep you busy doing something Problems at work continued to occupy his mind for some time. occupy somebody/something/yourself with somebody/something She occupied herself with routine office tasks. occupy somebody/something/yourself (in) doing something She occupied herself doing routine office tasks.

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   OCCUPY meaning: 1. to fill, exist in, or use a place or period of time: 2. to keep someone busy or interested: 3…. Learn more.

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   When you spend a lot of your free time reading tea leaves, you occupy yourself with that pastime, meaning it takes up your time and keeps you busy.

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   Occupy definition: to take or fill up (space, time, etc.). See examples of OCCUPY used in a sentence.

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   Occupy means to fill up, live in, or seize something. It can also mean to engage or employ the attention or concentration of someone or something. See different meanings, synonyms, and usage examples from various sources.

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   Learn the meaning, pronunciation, and examples of the verb occupy in different contexts. Occupy can mean to fill, use, live, work, take control, or have a position.