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# occupy

«occupy» in Mova's school dictionary: **To live in or use a building, room or space** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (occupy, occupies, occupied, occupying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To live in or use a building, room or space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#m1)

2) To fill time or keep someone busy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#m2)

3) To take control of a place by force, such as an army. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#m3)

4) To have a job or position. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: "the table occupies 2 square metres". Signs: "occupied" on a toilet door means someone is inside. In history: the army occupied the town. Phrases: occupy yourself, keep busy, occupied with.

### examples

- The family occupies the flat on the top floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#x1)
- The toilet is occupied: please wait. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#x2)
- Reading occupies me on long journeys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#x3)
- The soldiers occupied the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#x4)
- The table occupies a lot of space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#x5)
- She occupies an important job at the council. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#x6)
- Keep the toddler occupied with toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#x7)
- I am glad to find that I still occupy a corner in your mind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/#x8)

### note

y changes to i: occupies, occupied. Noun: occupation (job, or control of a place); occupant (someone inside). In area problems, the space occupied is measured in square units.

### In the corpora

- ["Nation-building" means occupying a country (moving in with soldiers and taking control) and remaking its government.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/8/)
- [Japan occupied Manchuria in 1931 and began full war on China in 1937; millions of Chinese died before Japan's defeat in 1945.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/58-china-1911-1949-and-mao/15/)
- [Support Thou me, and I shall be saved; and I will occupy myself with Thy statutes continually.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2282/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «occupy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occupy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.