OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 20098

occupy

/ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ocupar
To take or use.
I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day.
The film occupied me for three hours.
ocupar
To take or use.
I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.
ocupar
To take or use space.
The better apartments were already occupied.
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…
ocupar
To take or use space.
Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, w…
The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […]