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occupancy

noun

Etymology

From occupant + -cy.

  1. borrowed from occupāns
  2. borrowed from occupant
  3. suffixed as occupancy — “occupant + cy”

Definitions

  1. The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or…

    The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.

  2. The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or…

    The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or premises.

    • They had a five-year occupancy on the house.

  3. The specific use to which something occupied is put.

    • This building is for residential occupancy.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The expected frequency of a state.

The neighborhood

Derived

area of occupancy, certificate of occupancy, cooccupancy, high-occupancy vehicle, multioccupancy, overoccupancy, preoccupancy, underoccupancy, unoccupancy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at occupancy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at occupancy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at occupancy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA