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1. 1

   To take or use. To fill.

   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.

2. 2

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

   The film occupied me for three hours.

   I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day.

3. 3

   To take or use. To fill or hold (an official position or role).

   I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.

4. 4

   To take or use. To hold the attention of.

   I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.

5. 5

   To take or use space. To fill space.

   The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.

6. 6

   To take or use space. To live or reside in.

   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[…]

7. 7

   To take or use space. To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).

   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.

   One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied, but could not be held.

   Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.

8. 8

   To take or use space. To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).

9. 9

   obsoletoTo have sexual intercourse with.

   God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted

10. 10

    obsoletoTo do business in; to busy oneself with.

    All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.

    not able to occupy their old crafts

11. 11

    obsoletoTo use; to expend; to make use of.

    all the gold that was occupied for the work

    They occupy not money themselves.

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