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Picture a room with someone in it: for that stretch of time, the space is taken. The word names that fact — a space being in use — and then, when a manager counts how many of the rooms are taken, the same word names the figure on the report.
可以想成：一個房間裡有人在，這段時間這個空間就是「被佔著」的狀態。這個字指的就是這件事——空間正在被使用；而當經理把…更多收起
可以想成：一個房間裡有人在，這段時間這個空間就是「被佔著」的狀態。這個字指的就是這件事——空間正在被使用；而當經理把整棟樓有多少房間被佔著算成一個數字時，同一個字就變成報表上那個比率。語氣正式，多半出現在租約、飯店營運、建築法規裡。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
occupancynoun/ˈɑk.jə.p(ə)n.(t)si/
- 1
The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.
- 2
The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or premises.
- They had a five-year occupancy on the house.
- 3
The specific use to which something occupied is put.
- This building is for residential occupancy.
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lawA mode of acquiring title to a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it with an intent of acquiring such title.
- But if the matter pre-existing belong to none, then shall the Right be acquired by a kind of Occupancy: But if it it belong to another, then that the Right of Propriety descends not naturally unto us alone, will appear by what follows.
- Occupancy is the taking possession of those things, which before belonged to nobody.
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mathematicssciencesThe expected frequency of a state.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。