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v. To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours.

v. To dwell or reside in.

v. To hold or fill (an office or position).

v. To seize possession of and maintain control over by or as if by conquest.

v. To engage or employ the attention or concentration of: occupied the children with coloring books.

v. To fill (time).

v. To fill (space).

v. To live or reside in.

v. To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).

v. To fill or hold (an official position or role).

v. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.

v. To hold the attention of.

v. To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).

v. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

v. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill.

v. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.

v. To do business in; to busy one's self with.

v. To use; to expend; to make use of.

v. To have sexual intercourse with.

verb-intransitive. To hold possession; to be an occupant.

verb-intransitive. To follow business; to traffic.

To take possession of and retain or keep; enter upon the possession and use of; hold and use; especially, to take possession of (a place as a place of residence, or in warfare a town or country) and become established in it.

To take up, as room or space, or attention, interest, etc.; cover or fill; engross: as, to occupy too much space; to occupy the time with reading; to occupy the attention.

To hold, as an office; fill.

To take up and follow as a business or employment; be employed about; ply.

To employ; give occupation to; engage; busy: often used reflexively: as, to occupy one's self about something.

To use; make use of.

To possess; enjoy (with an obscene double meaning).

Synonyms 1-3. Hold, Own, etc. See possess.

To be in possession or occupation; hold possession; be an occupant; have possession and use.

To trade; traffic; carry on business.

v. require (time or space)

v. consume all of one's attention or time

v. live (in a certain place)

v. occupy the whole of

v. be on the mind of

v. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation

v. keep busy with

v. assume, as of positions or roles

"The word occupy also connotes presence, however, which is the precursor to love."

occupied    occupies    occupying   

work    do work   

occupant   

occupied   

occupation    occupier   

employ    busy    use    expend    traffic   

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