deoccupy

English

Alternative forms

• de-occupy

Etymology

From de- +‎ occupy.

Verb

deoccupy (third-person singular simple present deoccupies, present participle deoccupying, simple past and past participle deoccupied)

1. To remove an occupation from (a place).
   • 2021 June 22, Zsuzsa Csergő, Daina S. Eglitis, Paula M. Pickering, Central and East European Politics: Changes and Challenges, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 403:

     Estonia and Latvia also had more radical nationalist groups, known as Citizens Congresses, which advocated “deoccupying” the region by sending Russian migrants and their families back to Russia. Support for the Soviet regime was […]

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Related terms

• deoccupation

Translations

to remove an occupation from (a place) — see also liberate

• Belarusian: дэакупава́ць impf or pf (deakupavácʹ)
• French: désoccuper (fr)
• Russian: деоккупи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (deokkupírovatʹ)
• Ukrainian: деокупува́ти impf or pf (deokupuváty)