Слово англійською: occupy
Дієслово
Переклад occupy українською: займати, to ~ a seat — займати місце, заповнювати, забирати (час), the dinner and speeches occupied two hours — обід і промови тривали три години, захоплювати, заволодівати, окупувати, to ~ a country — окупувати країну, тимчасово користуватися, орендувати, займати (посаду), поглинати
Детальний опис
- occupy something to fill or use a space, an area or an amount of time synonym take up
- The bed seemed to occupy most of the room.
- As the company grew, it continued to occupy more space.
- Administrative work occupies half of my time.
- How do you occupy your time?
- Their time is fully occupied with their rigorous training regime.
- occupy something (formal) to live or work in a room, house or building
- He occupies an office on the 12th floor.
- occupy something to enter a place in a large group and take control of it, especially by military force
- The capital has been occupied by the rebel army.
- Protesting students occupied the TV station.
Wordfinder- civil disobedience
- demonstrate
- hunger strike
- march
- occupy
- placard
- protest
- riot
- sabotage
- uprising
- to fill your time or keep you busy doing something
- occupy somebody/something/yourself a game that will occupy the kids for hours
- Problems at work continued to occupy his mind for some time.
- occupy somebody/something/yourself with somebody/something She occupied herself with routine office tasks.
- occupy somebody/something/yourself (in) doing something She occupied herself doing routine office tasks.
- occupy something to have an official job or position synonym hold
- The president occupies the position for four years.
- jobs that have traditionally been occupied by men
Word OriginMiddle 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 cent.