Definitions for occupies

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occupies oc·cu·py

Spelling: [ok-yuh-pahy]

IPA: /ˈɒk yəˌpaɪ/

Occupies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in occupies (cceiopsu).

Definitions for occupies

adjective

1. (usually initial capital letter) of or relating to a protest about a social or political issue, as in Occupy movement; Occupy protest; Occupy candidate:

verb (used with object)

1. to take or fill up (space, time, etc.):
2. to engage or employ the mind, energy, or attention of:
3. to be a resident or tenant of; dwell in:
4. to hold (a position, office, etc.).
5. to take possession and control of (a place), as by military invasion.
6. (usually initial capital letter) to participate in a protest about (a social or political issue), as by taking possession or control of buildings or public places that are symbolic of the issue:

verb (used without object)

1. to take or hold possession.
2. (usually initial capital letter) to participate in a protest about a social or political issue.

Origin of occupies

1300-50; Middle English occupien Middle French occuper Latin occupāre to seize, take hold, take up, make one's own, equivalent to oc- oc- + -cup-, combining form of cap

Examples for occupies

Zora Neale Hurston occupies a page in a photograph as threshold-breaker, justly so.

Why, they've got the impudence to assert that he occupies a good position in Paris!

It occupies a two-story apartment in central Kiev that resembles a makeshift wartime command center.

You know that you left me to Flintwinch, and that he occupies your place.'

At a time when few are disposed to see history as a branch of literature, Lepore occupies a prominent place in American letters.

Does the soul, then, always bring life to whatever it occupies?

But in the position she occupies at present you are a dangerous man.

William Henry Cosby occupies a permanent place in the American pantheon.

Between a secular moralist and an ideologue, there is a softer, more human middle that Soyinka occupies.

It is not only Monsieur that occupies himself with Mademoiselle.