Definizione monolingua

occupy

occupy (third-person singular simple present occupies, present participle occupying, simple past and past participle occupied)

1. (transitive): To fill either time or space.

   The film occupied three hours of my time.

2. (transitive): To live or reside in.

   We occupy a small flat.

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     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 […]

3. (transitive): To fill or hold a position.

   I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.

4. (transitive): To conquer somewhere.

   The Germans occupied the Channel Islands.

5. (transitive): To hold the attention of.

   I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.

6. (transitive, obsolete) To cohabit, to have sexual intercourse with. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966.)

   1590s: Gods light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word occupy; which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, II.iv [1].

7. (transitive, surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).

Definizione dizionario occupy

	occupare
	reside in

abitare

acquisire

catturare

impiegare

incassare

intrappolare

occuparsi

prendere

sostenere

Altri significati:

time or space

(transitive): To live or reside in.

hold a position

conquer

(transitive, surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).

(transitive): To hold the attention of.

block (up)

(transitive, obsolete) To cohabit, to have sexual intercourse with. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, '''The Australian Language''' , second edition, 1966.)

(transitive): To fill or hold a position.

(transitive): To fill either time or space.

(transitive): To conquer somewhere.