occupy
verbEtymology
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.
- derived from *kap-<id:seize>✻
- derived from occuper
- inherited from occupien
Definitions
To take or use.
- The film occupied three hours of my time.
To take or use space.
- The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.
To have sexual intercourse with.
- God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
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To do business in
To do business in; to busy oneself with.
- All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
- not able to occupy their old crafts
To use
To use; to expend; to make use of.
- all the gold that was occupied for the work
- They occupy not money themselves.
Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”).
The neighborhood
- synonymgo to bed with
- synonymsleep with
- synonymcopulate with
- neighboroccupant
- neighboroccupation
Derived
cooccupy, deoccupy, misoccupy, multioccupy, nonoccupying, occupiable, occupier, occupy oneself, preoccupy, reoccupy
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at occupy. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at occupy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at occupy
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