occupy

Etymology
From, , borrowed from , from , from + , ultimately from. , now obsolete.

Verb

 * 1)  To take or use.
 * 2) To fill.
 * 3) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
 * 4) To fill or hold (an official position or role).
 * 5) To hold the attention of.
 * 6)  To take or use space.
 * 7) To fill space.
 * 8) To live or reside in.
 * 9)  To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
 * 10)  To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
 * 11)  To have sexual intercourse with.
 * 12) * 1867, 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.
 * 1)  To do business in; to busy oneself with.
 * 2) * 1551, (tr.), Sir 's  (in Latin), 1516
 * not able to occupy their old crafts
 * 1)  To use; to expend; to make use of.
 * 2) * 1551, (tr.), Sir 's  (in Latin), 1516
 * They occupy not money themselves.
 * 1)  To have sexual intercourse with.
 * 2) * 1867, 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.
 * 1)  To do business in; to busy oneself with.
 * 2) * 1551, (tr.), Sir 's  (in Latin), 1516
 * not able to occupy their old crafts
 * 1)  To use; to expend; to make use of.
 * 2) * 1551, (tr.), Sir 's  (in Latin), 1516
 * They occupy not money themselves.
 * 1) * 1551, (tr.), Sir 's  (in Latin), 1516
 * They occupy not money themselves.
 * They occupy not money themselves.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: займа́ти, зайня́ти


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: olla (jollakin) alueella
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: whakakapi, wheta
 * Ottoman Turkish: طوتمق
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Tày: bống
 * Ukrainian: займа́ти, зайня́ти


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: in Anspruch nehmen,
 * Haitian Creole: okipe, okipe
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: забира́ти, забра́ти, займа́ти, зайня́ти


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Irish: áitigh
 * Italian:
 * Maori: wheta
 * Norman: otchuper
 * Old English: būan, weardian
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: i,
 * Ukrainian: займа́ти, зайня́ти


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: акупава́ць, займа́ць, заня́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hernema
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: wheta
 * Norman: otchuper
 * Norwegian: besette
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian: окупува́ти, займа́ти, зайня́ти
 * Zazaki: zebt kerden


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: pitää kiireisenä
 * French:
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: займа́ти, зайня́ти


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Haitian Creole: okipe
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:, possideo
 * Norman: otchuper
 * Old English: weardian
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: займа́ти, зайня́ти


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: vangita huomio
 * French:
 * Latin:
 * Norman: otchuper
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: займа́ти, зайня́ти