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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'occupy' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions occupy verb (occup, i, ed) (transitive): To fill either time or space. The film occupied three hours of my time. (transitive): To live or reside in. We a small flat. (transitive): To fill or hold a position. I the post of deputy cat catcher. (transitive): To conquer somewhere. The Germans occupied the Channel Islands. (transitive): To hold the attention of. I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.] (obsolete) To cohabit, to have sexual intercourse with. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966.) 1590s: 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 — w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, ''w:Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 2, II.iv http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Shakespeare/2HenryIV/2HenryIV2_7.htm. (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point). Translations:  German: besetzen (trans-mid) Italian: occupare Dutch: bezetten(nl)        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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