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   occupy

   /ˈɒkjʊpʌɪ/

   verb

   • 1. reside or have one's place of business in (a building): "the rented flat she occupies in Hampstead" 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 of the end wall" Similar take upfillfill upcoverextend overuse uputilize
   • ▪ be situated in or at (a position in a system or hierarchy): "the Bank of England occupies a central position in the UK financial system"
   • ▪ 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): "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: "Syria was occupied by France under a League of Nations mandate" Similar captureseizetake possession ofconquerinvadeoverruntake overcolonizegarrisonannexdominatesubjugatehegemonizeholdcommandeerrequisitionOpposite leaveabandonquit
   • ▪ enter and stay in (a building) without authority 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 occupying a room mean?

   • If a room or something such as a seat is occupied, someone is using it, so that it is not available for anyone else. If a group of people or an army occupies a place or country, they move into it, using force in order to gain control of it. U.S. forces now occupy a part of the country. [VERB noun]

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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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   Definitions of occupy. verb. live (in a certain place) “he occupies two rooms on the top floor” synonyms: lodge in, reside. see more. verb. occupy the whole of. synonyms: fill. see more. verb. require (time or space) “This event occupied a very short time” synonyms: take, use up.

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   verb (used with object) , oc·cu·pied, oc·cu·py·ing. 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. Synonyms: busy, use.

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