Meaning of "occupy" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OCCUPY

From Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre to seize hold of, from ob- (intensive) + capere to take.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF OCCUPY

occupy  [ˈɒkjʊˌpaɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCCUPY

Occupy 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 occupy in English.

WHAT DOES OCCUPY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Occupy

Occupy may refer to: ▪ Occupy movement, an international protest that began in New York ▪ Occupy, a 2012 short study of the Occupy movement by Noam Chomsky ▪ Occupation, various meanings...

Definition of occupy in the English dictionary

The first definition of occupy in the dictionary is to live or be established in. Other definition of occupy is to keep busy or engrossed; engage the attention of. Occupy is also to take up.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OCCUPY

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 occupy

you would occupy

he/she/it would occupy

we would occupy

you would occupy

they would occupy

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 occupy

you would have occupy

he/she/it would have occupy

we would have occupy

you would have occupy

they would have occupy

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.

SYNONYMS OF «OCCUPY»

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

synonyms of occupy

absorb · amuse · annex · busy · capture · colonize · conquer · consume · control · cover · divert · dominate · employ · engage · engross · entertain · fill · fill up · garrison · hold · immerse · inhabit · interest · invade · involve · keep · live in · monopolize · overrun · own · permeate · pervade · possess · preoccupy · seize · take over · take up · tenant · tie up · use up · utilize

TRANSLATION OF OCCUPY

Find out the translation of occupy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of occupy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «occupy» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 占领
• Translator English - Spanish: ocupar
• English: occupy
• Translator English - Hindi: कब्जा
• Translator English - Arabic: يَحْتَلُّ
• Translator English - Russian: занимать
• Translator English - Portuguese: ocupar
• Translator English - Bengali: দখল করা
• Translator English - French: occuper
• Translator English - Malay: Menduduki
• Translator English - German: bewohnen
• Translator English - Japanese: 占める
• Translator English - Korean: 점유하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Manggoni
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sống
• Translator English - Tamil: ஆக்கிரமிக்க
• Translator English - Marathi: व्यापू
• Translator English - Turkish: işgal etmek
• Translator English - Italian: occupare
• Translator English - Polish: okupić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: орендувати
• Translator English - Romanian: a locui
• Translator English - Greek: καταλαμβάνω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: beset
• Translator English - Swedish: ockupera
• Translator English - Norwegian: bebo

10 QUOTES WITH «OCCUPY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word occupy.

1

Bashar al-Assad

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

2

Buzz Aldrin

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

3

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

4

Dario Argento

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

5

John Bachman

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

6

Derek Bok

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

7

Martin Van Buren

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

8

Alafair Burke

Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.

9

Johnny Cash

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

10

Tom Chatfield

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCCUPY»

Discover the use of occupy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to occupy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Occupy

'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.' Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world.

Noam Chomsky, 2012

Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America

Explores the history of the Occupy Wall Street movement, offering first-hand accounts of its early days and examining protesters' goals and demands.

Astra Taylor, 2011

Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street

He says, "This is the movement we have been waiting for to 'fight the power.' Even as debt strangled millions, and unemployment rose alongside foreclosures, economic issues only remained fodder for boring pundits and self-styled experts.

Danny Schechter, 2012

This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement

A look at the Occupy Wall Street movement offers reports by journalists and other outsiders as well as internal documents and accounts and discusses its distinctive leaderless organization and its views on the need for change.

Sarah Van Gelder, 2011

Occupy: American Spring: The Making of a Revolution

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) became the biggest news story in the world during the fall of 2011. Under the banner of the "99%", the Occupiers spread their message of class warfare and revolution across the globe.

Buck Sexton, 2012

Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism

A hot-button primer on the taboo subject impacting most Americans today: the failure of the capitalism to deliver public good.

Richard D. Wolff, David Barsamian, 2013

Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of ...

Informed by Gitlin's own history in the 60s protest movement—but written with both eyes aimed at the future—Occupy Nation is the key book for anyone looking to understand the revolution playing out before our eyes.

Todd Gitlin, 2012

Dreaming in Public: The Building of the Occupy Movement

Neither a narrative of the events nor an observer analysis but an assembly of the 'raw materials' that developed within the movement. This is an account of the thinking to help others in future.

Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, 2012

Occupy Money: Creating an Economy Where Everybody Wins

Margrit Kennedy's timely book provides a geography of hope for practical new money systems ... these are the seeds that need to be planted in the new economic spring of well-being that is emerging.

Margrit Kennedy, 2012

Occupy the Future

A series of essays looks at key principles of the United States, whether Americans are living up to them and what can be done to truly fulfill them.

David B. Grusky, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCCUPY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term occupy is used in the context of the following news items.

1100 Quicken workers, Rocket Fiber data center to occupy former …

1,100 Quicken workers, Rocket Fiber data center to occupy former News, Free Press building. City memo: Gilbert plans $54.6 million build-out ... «Crain's Detroit Business, Jul 15»

Taiwanese Students Occupy Education Ministry Over Textbook …

Dozens of Taiwanese students briefly occupied the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taipei last night to protest a series of “minor” adjustments (課 ... «The Diplomat, Jul 15»

Lowe's to occupy vacant Target location at Centrepoint Mall

This will be one of 12 Canadian locations left vacant by Target that the home improvement retailer is moving into, and one of 14 total new stores ... «insideTORONTO.com, Jul 15»

Co-occurring Synechococcus ecotypes occupy four major oceanic …

Co-occurring clades that occupy the same regime belong to distinct evolutionary lineages within Synechococcus, indicating that multiple ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»

ISIS infiltrates Egyptian special forces, joins with Hamas to occupy N …

Islamic State affiliates in Sinai and Libya have banded together with the Palestinian Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip for the shared goals of ... «DEBKA file, Jul 15»

CDA apathy: Encroachers occupy Aabpara pavements

ISLAMABAD: The Aabpara bus stand and the main market have been in the grip of encroachers as the Capital Development Authority (CDA) ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»

World hockey rankings: India occupy eighth spot in the latest rankings

Lausanne (Switzerland), July 24: Riding on their fourth-place finish in the Hockey World League (HWL) Semi-final, India leapfrogged South ... «India.com, Jul 15»

Hong Kong's police watchdog upholds ruling that top officer …

A high-profile accusation of assault against a senior police officer during the Occupy protests was upheld last night - the first time in at least five ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»

Occupy protester's conviction dropped

An Occupy protester has walked free from court after his disorderly ... footage involving the defendant during last year's occupy protests in Mong ... «Hong Kong Standard, Jul 15»

Empires occupy, while republics defend

Greg Abbott, give credence to the possibility that the United States military's Jade Helm 15 training exercise is a pretext to occupy Texas and ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»