transitive verb. To fill up (time or space).

transitive verb. To dwell or reside in (an apartment, for example).

transitive verb. To hold or fill (an office or position).

transitive verb. To seize possession of and maintain control over forcibly or by conquest.

transitive verb. To engage or employ the attention or concentration of.

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.

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

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

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

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

transitive verb. To use; to expend; to make use of.

transitive verb. To have sexual intercourse with.

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

intransitive verb. To follow business; to traffic.

verb. To fill (time).

verb. To fill (space).

verb. To live or reside in.

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

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

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

verb. To hold the attention of.

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

verb. require (time or space)

verb. consume all of one's attention or time

verb. live (in a certain place)

verb. occupy the whole of

verb. be on the mind of

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

verb. keep busy with

verb. assume, as of positions or roles

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

occupant  

occupation  occupier  

do work  work  

preoccupy  

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abide  absorb  absorb the attention  admit  adopt  

occupied  

occupied  occupies  occupying