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Occupy

//ˈɒkjʊpaɪ// name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”).
Verb
  1. 1
    To take or use.; To fill. transitive

    "The film occupied three hours of my time."

  2. 2
    consume all of one's attention or time wordnet
  3. 3
    To take or use.; To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of. transitive

    "The film occupied me for three hours."

  4. 4
    march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation wordnet
  5. 5
    To take or use.; To fill or hold (an official position or role). transitive

    "I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher."

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  1. 6
    require (time or space) wordnet
  2. 7
    To take or use.; To hold the attention of. transitive

    "I occupied her friend while he made his proposal."

  3. 8
    assume, as of positions or roles wordnet
  4. 9
    To take or use space.; To fill space. transitive

    "The historic mansion occupied two city blocks."

  5. 10
    keep busy with wordnet
  6. 11
    To take or use space.; To live or reside in. transitive

    "The better apartments were already occupied."

  7. 12
    live (in a certain place) wordnet
  8. 13
    To take or use space.; To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory). transitive

    "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, […]"

  9. 14
    occupy the whole of wordnet
  10. 15
    To take or use space.; To place the theodolite or total station at (a point). transitive
  11. 16
    be on the mind of wordnet
  12. 17
    To have sexual intercourse with. obsolete, transitive

    "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"

  13. 18
    To do business in; to busy oneself with. obsolete

    "All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise."

  14. 19
    To use; to expend; to make use of. obsolete

    "all the gold that was occupied for the work"

Etymology

From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capiō (“to take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.

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