occupies

We have found lemma(root) word of occupies : occupy.

Definitions


[ˈɒkjʊpʌɪ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- reside or have one's place of business in (a building)
(e.g: the rented flat she occupies in Hampstead)

- fill or preoccupy (the mind)
(e.g: her mind was occupied with alarming questions)

- take control of (a place, especially a country) by military conquest or settlement
(e.g: Syria was occupied by France under a League of Nations mandate)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: formed irregularly from Old French occuper, from Latin occupare ‘seize’. A now obsolete vulgar sense ‘have sexual relations with’ seems to have led to the general avoidance of the word in the 17th and most of the 18th century




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