Definition of occupy

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Occupy (v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.

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Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office..
Preengage :: Preengage (v. t.) To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.
Take :: Take (v. t.) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat..
Preoccupy :: Preoccupy (v. t.) To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held..
Busy :: Busy (v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books..
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals..
Occupy :: Occupy (v. t.) To do business in; to busy one's self with.
Mind :: Mind (n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business..
Occupation :: Occupation (n.) The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant..
Bar :: Bar (n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court..
Slav :: Slav (n.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc..
Absorb :: Absorb (v. t.) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth..
Whitlow :: Whitlow (a.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone..
Coincidence :: Coincidence (n.) The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich..
Seat :: Seat (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle..
Union :: Union (n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain..
Occupate :: Occupate (v. t.) To occupy.
Prepossess :: Prepossess (v. t.) To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of..
Tension :: Tension (a.) Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air..
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