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{{also|Occupy}}
==English==

===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|occupien}}, {{m|enm|occupyen}}, borrowed from {{der|en|fro|occuper}}, from {{der|en|la|occupō|occupāre|t=to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ}}, from {{m|la|ob||to, on}} + {{m|la|capiō||to take}}, ultimately from {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-||to seize, grab}}. {{doublet|en|occupate}}, now obsolete.

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|ŏʹ-kyo͝o-pī|a=RP}} {{IPA|en|/ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-occupy.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈɑkjəpaɪ/|a=GenAm}}
* {{hyphenation|en|oc|cu|py}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|of time}} To take or use.
## To [[fill]].
##: {{ux|en|The film '''occupied''' three hours of my time.}}
##* {{RQ:Churchill Celebrity|chapter=8|passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge '''occupied''' by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
## {{senseid|en|keep busy}}To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
##: {{ux|en|The film '''occupied''' me for three hours.}}
##: {{ux|en|I '''occupy''' myself with gardening for a few hours every day.}}
## To [[fill]] or [[hold]] (an official position or role).
##: {{ux|en|I '''occupy''' the post of deputy cat catcher.}}
## To hold the [[attention]] of.
##: {{ux|en|I '''occupied''' her friend while he made his proposal.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To take or use [[space]].
## To fill space.
##: {{ux|en|The historic mansion '''occupied''' two city blocks.}}
## To [[live]] or [[reside]] in.
##* {{RQ:Irving Tales of a Traveller|passage=The better apartments were already '''occupied'''.}}
##* {{RQ:Schuster Hepaticae|volume=V|page=vii|text=With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it '''occupied'''; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get{{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|military}} To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
##* {{quote-text|en|year=1940|title=The China monthly review|volume=94-95|page=370|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QqkTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&dq=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OB6HT4_zC4e68ASF1-jNCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA
|passage=The Japanese can '''occupy''' but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, {{...}}}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1975|author=Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford|title=King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?ei=ex2HT9-GK5D69gTJqNjdCA&id=VCwqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22occupied+but+could+not+hold%22&q=%22occupied+but+could%22#search_anchor|page=330
|passage=Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he '''occupied''' but could not hold.}}
##* {{quote-text|en|year=1983|author=Arthur Keppel-Jones|title=Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902|page=462
|passage=One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were '''occupied''', but could not be held.}}
##* {{quote-text|en|year=1991|author=Werner Spies; John William Gabriel|title=Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe|page=333
|passage=Germany '''occupied''' France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.}}
##* {{quote-text|en|year=2006|author=John Michael Francis|title=Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History|page=496
|passage=Spain '''occupied''', but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.}}
## {{lb|en|surveying}} To place the [[theodolite]] or [[total station]] at (a point).
# {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To have [[sexual intercourse]] with.<ref>Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language'', second edition, 1966.<!-- not that there's anything Australian about this sense, it was just what I had to hand --></ref>
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2|II|iv|text=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<!-- note: this line is missing from the Project Gutenberg edition, bowdlerized or whatever -->}}
#* '''1867''', {{w|Robert Nares}} ''A Glossary''
#*: OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
#*:: These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word ''occupy''. ''2 Hen. IV'', ii, 4.
#*:: Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
#*:: For 's whore; Groyne still doth ''occupy'' his land. ''B. Jons. Epigr.'', 117.
#*:: Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as ''occupy'', nature, and the like. ''Ibid., Discoveries'', vol. vii, p. 119.
#*: It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To do business in; to busy oneself with.
#* {{RQ:KJV|Ezekiel|27|9|text=All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee<!--sic--> to '''occupy''' the merchandise.}}
#* '''1551''', {{w|Ralph Robinson (humanist)|Ralph Robinson}} (tr.), Sir {{w|Thomas More}}'s ''{{w|Utopia (book)|Utopia}}'' (in Latin), 1516
#*: not able to '''occupy''' their old crafts
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To use; to expend; to make use of.
#* {{RQ:KJV|Exodus|38|24|text=all the gold that was '''occupied''' for the work}}
#* '''1551''', {{w|Ralph Robinson (humanist)|Ralph Robinson}} (tr.), Sir {{w|Thomas More}}'s ''{{w|Utopia (book)|Utopia}}'' (in Latin), 1516
#*: They '''occupy''' not money themselves.

====Conjugation====
{{en-conj|pres_3sg=occupies|pres_3sg_old=occupieth|pres_2sg_old=occupiest|past=occupied}}

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|to possess or use the time or capacity of}} {{l|en|employ}}, {{l|en|busy}}
* {{sense|to have sexual intercourse with}} {{l|en|coitize}}, {{l|en|go to bed with}}, {{l|en|sleep with}}; see also [[Thesaurus:copulate with]]

====Derived terms====
{{der2|en|deoccupy|occupier|occupy oneself}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|occupant}}
* {{l|en|occupation}}

====Translations====
{{trans-see|to occupy|consume}}

{{trans-top|to fill (time)}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|զբաղեցնել}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|заемам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|viedä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|occuper}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|occupare}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakatāuteute}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ocupar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|занима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|заня́ть|pf}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|займа́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|зайня́ти|pf}}
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{{trans-top|to fill (space)}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|զբաղեցնել}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|заемам}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[olla]] ([[jokin|jollakin]]) [[alue]]ella}}
* French: {{t+|fr|occuper}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|occupare}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakakapi}}, {{t|mi|wheta}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|طوتمق|tr=tutmak}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ocupar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|занима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|заня́ть|pf}}
* Tày: {{t|tyz|bống}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|займа́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|зайня́ти|pf}}
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{{trans-top|time or space}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|զբաղեցնել}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|花費|tr=huāfèi}} {{qualifier|time, money}}, {{t+|cmn|佔|tr=zhàn}} {{qualifier|space}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|obsadit}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|varata}}
* French: {{t+|fr|occuper}}
* German: {{t|de|in Anspruch nehmen}}, {{t+|de|belegen}}
* Haitian Creole: {{t|ht|okipe}}, {{t|ht|okipe}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|occupare}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ocupar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|занима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|заня́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|ocupar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|uppta}}, {{t+|sv|ta upp}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|забира́ти}}, {{t|uk|забра́ти}}, {{t|uk|займа́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|зайня́ти|pf}}
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{{trans-top|reside in}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|զբաղեցնել}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|обитавам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|ocupar}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|居住|tr=jūzhù}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|asuttaa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|occuper}}, {{t+|fr|habiter}}
* German: {{t+|de|bewohnen}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|áitigh}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|occupare}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|wheta}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|otchuper}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|būan}}, {{t|ang|weardian}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ocupar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|занима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|заня́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|ocupar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|bo}} i, {{t+|sv|bebo}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|займа́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|зайня́ти|pf}}
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{{trans-top|have (taken) control of}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|اِحْتَلَّ}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|գրավել}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|işğal etmək}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|акупава́ць|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|be|займа́ць|impf|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|be|заня́ць|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|окупи́рам|impf|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|ocupar}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|佔據|tr=zhànjù}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|obsadit}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|besætte}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|bezetten}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|okupi}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vallata}}, {{t+|fi|miehittää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|occuper}}
* German: {{t+|de|besetzen}}, {{t+|de|okkupieren}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|elfoglal}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|hernema}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|占める|tr=しめる, shimeru|sc=Jpan}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|wheta}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|otchuper}}
* Norwegian: {{t|no|besette}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|okupować|impf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ocupar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|оккупи́ровать|impf|pf}}, {{t+|ru|занима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|заня́ть|pf}}, {{t+|ru|завладева́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|завладе́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|ocupar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|ockupera}}, {{t+|sv|besätta}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|ఆక్రమించు}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|окупува́ти|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|uk|займа́ти|impf|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|uk|зайня́ти|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|zebt kerden}}
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{{trans-top|to use the time or capacity of}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|զբաղեցնել}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[pitää]] [[kiireinen|kiireisenä]]}} {{qualifier|more common to use a causative structure, like "keep someone doing"}}
* French: {{t+|fr|occuper}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|занима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|заня́ть|pf}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|займа́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|зайня́ти|pf}}
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{{trans-top|hold a position}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|զբաղեցնել}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|заемам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|ocupar}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|據有|tr=jùyǒu}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|toimia}}
* French: {{t+|fr|occuper}}
* German: {{t+|de|besetzen}}
* Haitian Creole: {{t|ht|okipe}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|占める|tr=しめる, shimeru|sc=Jpan}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|teneo}}, {{t|la|possideo}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakakapi}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|otchuper}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|weardian}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ocupar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|занима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|заня́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|ocupar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|inneha}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|займа́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|зайня́ти|pf}}
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{{trans-top|hold attention of}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|զբաղեցնել}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|завладявам}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[vangita]] [[huomio]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|occuper}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|teneo}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|otchuper}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ocupar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|занима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|заня́ть|pf}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|займа́ти|impf}}, {{t|uk|зайня́ти|pf}}
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===See also===
* [[Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year]]

===References===
* {{R:OneLook}}
* {{R:Keywords 21st}}
* {{R:OED}}
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}
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