Occupy
verb
To live or work in a place.
People have occupied these houses for hundreds of years.
verb
To fill or use a space, area, or amount of time.
The meeting occupied the entire morning.
verb
To take control of a place by force.
The troops occupied the city.
verb
To keep someone busy.
The children were occupied with their toys.
verb
To live or work in a place.
People have occupied these houses for hundreds of years.
verb
To fill or use a space, area, or amount of time.
The meeting occupied the entire morning.
verb
To take control of a place by force.
The troops occupied the city.
verb
To keep someone busy.
The children were occupied with their toys.
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Place Association
Use 'occupy' to express the connection someone has with a place.
She has occupied that office since the company's founding.
Pro Tip 2/2Duration Implication
Implies long-term presence, not just a temporary stay.
The family occupied the farmhouse through generations.
Pro Tip 1/2Place Association
Use 'occupy' to express the connection someone has with a place.
She has occupied that office since the company's founding.
Pro Tip 2/2Duration Implication
Implies long-term presence, not just a temporary stay.
The family occupied the farmhouse through generations.
Pro Tip 1/2Place Association
Use 'occupy' to express the connection someone has with a place.
She has occupied that office since the company's founding.
Pro Tip 2/2Duration Implication
Implies long-term presence, not just a temporary stay.
The family occupied the farmhouse through generations.
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Your body language may...
So you have people who are like caricatures of alphas, really coming into the room, they get right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to occupy space. When they sit down, they're sort of spread out. They raise their hands like this. You have other people who are virtually collapsing
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Why is being scared so...
They do this by making sure we have enough energy and are protected from feeling pain, while shutting down nonessential systems, like critical thought. Feeling pain-free and energized, while not getting caught up in worrisome thoughts that normally occupy our brains, that all sounds great,
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Srdja Popovic: How to...
where you can see all these excited young people protesting around the world, occupying this, occupying that. Are they going to become the world wave? Are they going to find their skills, their enthusiasm, and their strategy to find what they really want and push for the reform,
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The benefits of a good...
and going to sleep. Sleep occupies nearly a third of our lives, but many of us give surprisingly little attention and care to it. This neglect is often the result of a major misunderstanding. Sleep isn't lost time, or just a way to rest when all our important work is done.
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Killer whale society PIPE...
at its heart is the killer whale founded just about every part of our one world ocean the killer whale is the most broadly distributed mammal in the world apart from us near shore off shore polar or tropical they occupy a singular position in the food web without concern
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Mick Mountz: What...
has now occupied all the perimeter of the building because that's where the pick stations were. They sorted it out for themselves. So I'll conclude with just one final video that shows how this comes to bear on the pick worker's actual day in the life of.
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The Secret World of...
ecological niche that dragonflies occupy dragonflies are intimately connected with freshwater ecosystems and it's the strategies and adaptations that dragonflies implore teach phase of their lifecycle but make them such a success in this habitat
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Budgie Courtship Ritual...
secret in their courtship good looks are everything but after her flight she's too occupied in preening to care but her admirer has ways to get himself noticed she sees more subtleties of color than
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What’s that ringing in...
to occupy the neurons that would otherwise deliver the tinnitus signal. Practiced alongside counseling, these interventions allow people to re-evaluate their relationship with tinnitus.
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Most Soothing Sir David...
Some of the luckier ones occupy a more sheltered valley where a few trees have managed to take root. Morning fog condensing on leaves is an important source of water.
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Your body language may...
So you have people who are like caricatures of alphas, really coming into the room, they get right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to occupy space. When they sit down, they're sort of spread out. They raise their hands like this. You have other people who are virtually collapsing
Video examples
Why is being scared so...
They do this by making sure we have enough energy and are protected from feeling pain, while shutting down nonessential systems, like critical thought. Feeling pain-free and energized, while not getting caught up in worrisome thoughts that normally occupy our brains, that all sounds great,
Video examples
Srdja Popovic: How to...
where you can see all these excited young people protesting around the world, occupying this, occupying that. Are they going to become the world wave? Are they going to find their skills, their enthusiasm, and their strategy to find what they really want and push for the reform,
Video examples
The benefits of a good...
and going to sleep. Sleep occupies nearly a third of our lives, but many of us give surprisingly little attention and care to it. This neglect is often the result of a major misunderstanding. Sleep isn't lost time, or just a way to rest when all our important work is done.
Video examples
Killer whale society PIPE...
at its heart is the killer whale founded just about every part of our one world ocean the killer whale is the most broadly distributed mammal in the world apart from us near shore off shore polar or tropical they occupy a singular position in the food web without concern
Video examples
Mick Mountz: What...
has now occupied all the perimeter of the building because that's where the pick stations were. They sorted it out for themselves. So I'll conclude with just one final video that shows how this comes to bear on the pick worker's actual day in the life of.
Video examples
The Secret World of...
ecological niche that dragonflies occupy dragonflies are intimately connected with freshwater ecosystems and it's the strategies and adaptations that dragonflies implore teach phase of their lifecycle but make them such a success in this habitat
Video examples
Budgie Courtship Ritual...
secret in their courtship good looks are everything but after her flight she's too occupied in preening to care but her admirer has ways to get himself noticed she sees more subtleties of color than
Video examples
What’s that ringing in...
to occupy the neurons that would otherwise deliver the tinnitus signal. Practiced alongside counseling, these interventions allow people to re-evaluate their relationship with tinnitus.
Video examples
Most Soothing Sir David...
Some of the luckier ones occupy a more sheltered valley where a few trees have managed to take root. Morning fog condensing on leaves is an important source of water.
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Johann Johannsson
Icelander Composer
Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn't reneging on it; I just didn't want to do it.
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Gary Zukav
American Author
Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
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Hale White
British Writer
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
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John le Carre
English Writer
I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Scottish Writer
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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Felipe VI of Spain
Spanish Royalty
There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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Johann Johannsson
Icelander Composer
Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.
Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn't reneging on it; I just didn't want to do it.
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Gary Zukav
American Author
Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
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Hale White
British Writer
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
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John le Carre
English Writer
I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Scottish Writer
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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Felipe VI of Spain
Spanish Royalty
There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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