occupy.
To take or use.
Meaning & usage
To take or use. To fill.
The film occupied three hours of my time.
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.
To take or use. To fill or hold (an official position or role).
I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.
To take or use. To hold the attention of.
I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.
To take or use space. To fill space.
The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.
To take or use space. To live or reside in.
To take or use space. To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
To take or use space. To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
To have sexual intercourse with.
To do business in; to busy oneself with.
To use; to expend; to make use of.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capiō (“to take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.
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