Occupyname

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  Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”).

occupyverb/ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/

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  To take or use.

  • The film occupied three hours of my time.
  • I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
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  To take or use.

  • The film occupied me for three hours.
  • I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day.
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  To take or use.

  • I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.
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  To take or use.

  • I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.
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  To take or use space.

  • The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.
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  To take or use space.

  • The better apartments were already occupied.
  • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
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  governmentmilitarypoliticsTo take or use space.

  • The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […]
  • Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
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  geographynatural-sciencessurveyingTo take or use space.