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Meaning of "occupies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OCCUPIES

occupies  [ˈɒkjʊpaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCCUPIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Occupies is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb occupies in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OCCUPIES

PRESENT

Present
I occupy
you occupy
he/she/it occupies
we occupy
you occupy
they occupy
Present continuous
I am occupying
you are occupying
he/she/it is occupying
we are occupying
you are occupying
they are occupying
Present perfect
I have occupied
you have occupied
he/she/it has occupied
we have occupied
you have occupied
they have occupied
Present perfect continuous
I have been occupying
you have been occupying
he/she/it has been occupying
we have been occupying
you have been occupying
they have been occupying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I occupied
you occupied
he/she/it occupied
we occupied
you occupied
they occupied
Past continuous
I was occupying
you were occupying
he/she/it was occupying
we were occupying
you were occupying
they were occupying
Past perfect
I had occupied
you had occupied
he/she/it had occupied
we had occupied
you had occupied
they had occupied
Past perfect continuous
I had been occupying
you had been occupying
he/she/it had been occupying
we had been occupying
you had been occupying
they had been occupying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will occupy
you will occupy
he/she/it will occupy
we will occupy
you will occupy
they will occupy
Future continuous
I will be occupying
you will be occupying
he/she/it will be occupying
we will be occupying
you will be occupying
they will be occupying
Future perfect
I will have occupied
you will have occupied
he/she/it will have occupied
we will have occupied
you will have occupied
they will have occupied
Future perfect continuous
I will have been occupying
you will have been occupying
he/she/it will have been occupying
we will have been occupying
you will have been occupying
they will have been occupying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would occupies
you would occupies
he/she/it would occupies
we would occupies
you would occupies
they would occupies
Conditional continuous
I would be occupying
you would be occupying
he/she/it would be occupying
we would be occupying
you would be occupying
they would be occupying
Conditional perfect
I would have occupies
you would have occupies
he/she/it would have occupies
we would have occupies
you would have occupies
they would have occupies
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been occupying
you would have been occupying
he/she/it would have been occupying
we would have been occupying
you would have been occupying
they would have been occupying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you occupy
we let´s occupy
you occupy
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to occupy
Past participle
occupied
Present Participle
occupying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OCCUPIES


despise
dɪˈspaɪz
episcopise
ɛˈpɪskəˌpaɪz
episcopize
ɛˈpɪskəˌpaɪz
penelopise
pɪˈnɛləˌpaɪz
penelopize
pɪˈnɛləˌpaɪz
pize
paɪz
preoccupies
prɪˈɒkjʊpaɪz
reoccupies
ˌriːˈɒkjʊpaɪz
spies
spaɪz
stylopise
ˈstaɪləˌpaɪz
stylopize
ˈstaɪləˌpaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OCCUPIES

occupation franchise
occupation grouping
occupation groupings
occupational
occupational guidance
occupational hazard
occupational health
occupational medicine
occupational pension
occupational psychologist
occupational psychology
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
occupational therapist
occupational therapy
occupationally
occupative
occupied
Occupied Territories
occupier
occupy

WORDS THAT END LIKE OCCUPIES

canopies
copies
duppies
entropies
espies
floppies
guppies
harpies
hippies
jalopies
kelpies
nappies
philanthropies
photocopies
poppies
preppies
puppies
soapies
therapies
weepies

Synonyms and antonyms of occupies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «OCCUPIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «occupies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of occupies

Translation of «occupies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OCCUPIES

Find out the translation of occupies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of occupies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «occupies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

占地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ocupa
570 millions of speakers

English

occupies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

occupies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحتل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

занимает
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ocupa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দখল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

occupe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menduduki
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

besetzt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

占有する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

차지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Manggoni
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiếm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆக்கிரமித்துள்ளது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्यापलेले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaplar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

occupa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zajmuje
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

займає
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ocupă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταλαμβάνει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beslaan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

upptar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

opptar
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of occupies

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OCCUPIES»

The term «occupies» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.817 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OCCUPIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «occupies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «occupies» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about occupies

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «OCCUPIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word occupies.
1
Jose Maria Aznar
March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
2
Elias Canetti
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
3
Michael Chiklis
When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.
4
Chuck Close
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
5
Kim Jong Il
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
6
Tim Jackson
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.
7
Anish Kapoor
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
8
Anthony Kiedis
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
9
Lee Konitz
A first love always occupies a special place.
10
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCCUPIES»

Discover the use of occupies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to occupies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Who Occupies This House: A Novel
Kathleen Hill's finely wrought novel tells the story of four generations of an Irish-American family that has lived in the same house for almost a century.
Kathleen Hill, 2010
2
Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost: From The Spectator, 31 ...
8vo. II. With other works. 1921. London. Addison's works [Ed : with Life by T. Tickeix.) The 4 vols. 4U5. criticism occupies iii. 268-382. 1761. Birmingham. Basherville edition. Addison's works. The criticism 4 vols. 4to. occupies iii. 246- 355. 1)62.
Joseph Addison, Edward Arber, 1869
3
Debates and proceedings of the Constitutional convention of ...
This committee occupies a room in the basement of the Leland Hofel, at a rent of seventy five dollars per month, which includes gas, fire, furniture and services of janitor. jThe committee has drawn about thirty-seven dollars and sixty cents in ...
Illinois. Constitutional Convention, Illinois, 1870
4
SEMICONDUCTORS & SEMIMETALS
At the point labeled Ot, region I occupies 2 % of the insulator, region II 1 %, and region III 97 %, with essentially 100% of the applied voltage across region III. At point /3, region I occupies 14% of the insulator, region II 7 %, and region III 79 %  ...
Robert K. Willardson, Albert C. Beer, 1970
5
Explore and Discover 1 Tm' 2004 Ed.
Subject Matter Topic: Matter Occupies Space Concepts: Matter occupies space. The bigger the matter, the more space it occupies. The smaller the matter, the less space it occupies. Science Processes Involved: Observing, inferring Values  ...
Briones, Et Al
6
An Introduction to Philosophical Methods
Second: discover what occupies the role. Having used the folk platitudes to delineate a certain role, there is then a question as to what occupies that role. Folk platitudes about colour say that colour is, amongst other things, a visible property of ...
Christopher Daly, 2010
7
A History of the progress of the Calculus of Variations ...
I. Theory of Curves; it occupies pages 137—202. This chapter consists of a collection of problems, including those of historical celebrity; they are all fully solved. The fifth chapter is entitled On multiple Integrals in general; it occupies pages ...
Isaac TODHUNTER, 1861
8
Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective
In the NRZ format, the pulse for a 1 bit occupies the entire bit interval, and no pulse is used for a 0 bit. If there are two successive 1s, the pulse occupies two successive bit intervals. In the RZ format, the pulse for a 1 bit occupies only a fraction ...
Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar Sivarajan, Galen Sasaki, 2009
9
Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2008
... using std::endl; int main() { CBox myBox(4.0,3.0,2.0); // Create CBox object CCandyBox myCandyBox; CCandyBox myMintBox(“Wafer Thin Mints”); // Create CCandyBox object cout << endl << << << << << << “myBox occupies “ << sizeof ...
Ivor Horton, 2011
10
English Syntax: An Introduction
(21) In a fairly obvious sense, the pronoun he occupies the same kind of position within TP as the adverb straight does within PP: more specifically, he merges with an intermediate T-bar projection to form a maximal TP projection in the same ...
Andrew Radford, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCCUPIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term occupies is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Finance · CMBS GSA Cuts Drive Up Delinquencies in DC Market
TASC was purchased by Engility Holdings, which provides various government services, last year for $1.1 billion and currently occupies 87 ... «Commercial Observer, Jul 15»
2
Conditions on Pluto: Incredibly hazy with flowing ice
The plain is about the size of Texas and occupies the left side of Pluto's bright heart-shaped feature, named Tombaugh Regio after the late astronomer who ... «KTBS, Jul 15»
3
Behind the pink door, a white house by design
Gowdy calls the top two floors home, while her work studio occupies the 1908 building's ground level. The studio's entry, marked by a pink ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 15»
4
Barangaroo park a throwback to pre-colonial Sydney
The park occupies six hectares along the foreshore at the north western end of Barangaroo and is about a quarter of the whole site. «ABC Online, Jul 15»
5
Quicken has plans for Detroit News Building
Molina Healthcare of Michigan already occupies a portion of the former newspaper building. The Free Press and News moved out of the ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
6
Kyle Peko, Oregon State Beavers defensive lineman, becomes …
His athleticism makes him a dangerous pass-rusher, while his size occupies offensive linemen and allows the linebackers behind him to make ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
7
Those two guys sitting behind the plate every Nationals game? Meet …
Heck, maybe you've worried when neither brother occupies his customary seat just to the left of home plate, although that hasn't happened at ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
8
Raleigh closes the deal on Dix property
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services still occupies several buildings on the campus, and the state will continue using that space ... «News & Observer, Jul 15»
9
Banking Bigwig Trades $4.85M Greenwich Village Co-op to Holistic …
The Greenwich village apartment occupies a corner on the 10th floor of a landmarked building dating to 1927. Said corner has been granted to ... «New York Observer, Jul 15»
10
Business briefs: Library hosts business services
NaperLaunch, which occupies space on the upper level of Nichols Library in downtown Naperville, will host events in coming weeks to support ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»

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