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occupied

[ok-yuh-pahy]

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verb (used with object)

to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.

to engage or employ the mind, energy, or attention of: Occupy the children with a game while I prepare dinner.

to be a resident or tenant of; dwell in: We occupied the same house for 20 years.

to take possession and control of (a place), as by military invasion.

to hold (a position, office, etc.).

verb (used without object)

to take or hold possession.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English occupien < Middle French occuper < Latin occupāre to seize, take hold, take up, make one's own, equivalent to oc- oc- + -cup-, combining form of capere to take, seize + -āre infinitive suffix

Related forms

oc·cu·pi·a·ble, adjective

oc·cu·pi·er, noun

mis·oc·cu·py, verb, -pied, -py·ing.

o·ver·oc·cu·pied, adjective

re·oc·cu·py, verb (used with object), -pied, -py·ing.

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self-oc·cu·pied, adjective

un·der·oc·cu·pied, adjective

well-oc·cu·pied, adjective

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Synonyms
1, 2, 4, 5. See have. 2. use, busy. 4. capture, seize.

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Example Sentences

Protesters also barred reporters from entering the occupied space.

Casper, who is black, and a white friend entered an elevator occupied by an older white couple.

Jasper is occupied by reporters and television crews armed with boom microphones.

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Protesters also barred reporters from entering the occupied space.

Casper, who is black, and a white friend entered an elevator occupied by an older white couple.

Jasper is occupied by reporters and television crews armed with boom microphones.

They can stay in their burned-out habitat and starve to death or move into habitat already occupied by other orangutans.

Helping others during a time of crisis is not only the right thing to do but it is a good way to keep yourself occupied.

Scientists suspect the behavior may benefit the birds by attracting insects or signaling to other owls that the nest is occupied.

Lovers' hearts, after all, should be occupied with warmer thoughts than those of health risks.

They were not some early croc offshoot that filled the niche that would later be occupied by predatory dinosaurs.

Keeping the kids occupied during fieldwork expeditions calls for special tools in some parts of the world.

Lemon ant trees occupied by other ant species, or by no ants, always had other plants growing nearby.

Just consider the area that is today occupied on the earths' surface by open pit coal mines.

To the south, they occupied the more temperate and rainy lands found there.

Good choice for color in place to be occupied in summer by tuberous begonias.

When enough grubs have occupied a fish, they make it swim closer to the water's surface.

Over the next hours, students and friends occupied multiple rooms of the building while police watched nervously.

Sometimes the kids have to get creative to keep themselves occupied.

In this case, the niches were those occupied by dinosaurs, the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs and archaic birds.

By early evening, every bed and examining table was occupied by a wheezing and often panicky worker.

When a heroin user shoots up, the opiates in the drug plug into the nerve receptors normally occupied by endorphins.

College officials saved the adjoining corner site, once occupied by an animal hospital, for the new performing-arts center.

If a clay source is located nearby, single use pottery that is used while a site is occupied and discarded is also a possiblity.

It would signal that the fort was occupied and prepared to defend the harbor.

On our campus, student protestors occupied a hall for a week.

More productive members of society are occupied with productivity instead of self promotion.

Over the millennia the bodies decomposed, leaving the space they occupied.

There should be a reasonable amt of space available, even if it is already occupied.

They soon occupied positions that had been the exclusive preserve of white men for more than half a century.

Every viable site in the world has been occupied by plants.

Those dark spaces represent thousands of square miles of mountains, mesas and plains occupied by absolutely no one.

For example, up until the redesign immediately preceding the present one, the table of contents occupied two facing pages.

It is certainly not a vehicle for long journeys with all three seats occupied.

Rumor has it that the underground is occupied by advanced civilizations.

Three quarters of the occupied office space will receive enough daylight for full lighting, greatly reducing electricity demand.

In another, they were asked to perform a button-pushing task to keep their attention occupied.

Pages filled with squiggly equations describe a world occupied not by fallible, generous people.

Describe the place occupied by and/or surrounding the body of water:.

The body of the room and the galleries were occupied by the audience.

Most companies occupied themselves first and foremost with the survival of their employees who were working in the buildings.

Worse, my mind was occupied with tall tales told by prospectors and desert rats.

Measuring the spread is essentially measuring the space occupied by any two points on.

Figuring out how memory works is an ongoing process that will keep neuroscientists occupied for decades.

He suspected the actual numbers were much higher and set out to create a new way of seeing the occupied space.

The category is a real one, and it would be good if it were occupied only by those who belong in.

Crowds of royalists have occupied the government's.

The rules of war have occupied the attention of scholars, soldiers, and statesmen for thousands of years.

To date, the white-space prototypes used in the feasibility trials have had little trouble sensing occupied television channels.

Once predominantly owned and occupied by blacks, the properties have become playgrounds for wealthy, mostly white vacationers.

Make sure the young'ns are occupied by showing them these kid-friendly apps.

All the components are built into a frame, which can be put into the space the old engine occupied.

Merchants have occupied the area since the mid-1800s and dry-goods sellers of all kinds are concentrated in the vicinity.

In particular, when a search is undertaken for a position occupied by a temporary.

The two species certainly occupied more or less the same ecological niche.

In the center of the ring stood a watchtower occupied by observers who were completely concealed from the prisoners.

Mixed-income residential towers and adjoining parkland rise on land formerly occupied by railroad yards.

He will soon be fully occupied with a project that has been bubbling away for two years:.

The key is that she appears to be pleasant occupied when you pick her up.

My parents' old home has been rebuilt and is now occupied by soldiers.

They've lost the curiosity because they're too occupied with their smart phones.

Most of all, she imagines the man she believes commissioned and occupied the building.

It keeps her occupied and satisfies her need to give a gift to staff members and visitors and so forth.

At the time the town was occupied by federal troops.

It is not occupied by sweet moral scientists who pay for their research out of daddy's wealthy earnings.

They found that all vertebrate globins occupied four branches in the globin family tree.

As to your second point, while psychiatrist's coaches may tend to be occupied by the more affluent members of society.

The drain is not occupied by any medium so when the drain or the core is opened or uses.

Applying law of the sea, any abandoned vessel need only be occupied to claim ownership.

The more boys occupied your mother's womb before you, the more likely it is that you will be gay.

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Word Origin & History

occupy

c.1340, "to take possession of," also "to take up space or time, employ (someone)," from O.Fr. occuper, from L. occupare "take over, seize, possess, occupy," from ob "over" + intensive form of capere "to grasp, seize" (see capable). During 16c.-17c. a euphemism for "have

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sexual intercourse with," which caused it to fall from polite usage.

"A captaine? Gods light these villaines wil make the word as odious as the word occupy, which was an excellent good worde before it was il sorted." [Doll Tearsheet in "2 Henry IV"]

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"How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?"

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