1. occupy

verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] keep busy with.

Rhymes with Occupy

• preoccupy

Sentences with occupy

1. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
Less familiar brown spider species occupy the Desert Southwest.

2. Verb, base form
Find a chair and keep yourself busy with whatever you brought to occupy yourself while you wait.

3. Adjective
Florida has some of America’s best RV resorts, but only a few occupy prime oceanfront property.

Quotes about occupy

1. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant

2. Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
- Douglas Rushkoff

3. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
- Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

2. occupy

verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] live (in a certain place).

3. occupy

verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] occupy the whole of.

4. occupy

verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation.

5. occupy

verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] be on the mind of.

6. occupy

verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] consume all of one's attention or time.

7. occupy

verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] require (time or space).

8. occupy

verb. ['ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ'] assume, as of positions or roles.