Occupy
- v. i. To follow business; to traffic.
- v. t. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
- v. t. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.
- v. t. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
- v. t. To do business in; to busy one’s self with.
- v. t. To use; to expend; to make use of.
- v. t. To have sexual intercourse with.
- v. i. To hold possession; to be an occupant.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.