Synonym: absorb, busy, concern, engage, engross, fill, inhabit, interest, invade, lodge in, reside, take, use up, worry. Similar words: occupation, occur, soccer, accuse, occasional, on occasion, accurate, accuracy. Meaning: ['ɑkjəpaɪ /'ɒkjʊ-] v. 1. be present in; be inside of 2. keep busy with 3. live (in a certain place) 4. occupy the whole of 5. be on the mind of 6. require (time or space) 7. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation 8. engage or engross wholly.
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61. Do hearing people tend to occupy more influential positions in technology than do deaf people?
62. This stark view of what really matters has touched off a spirited debate and will occupy us in Chapter 5.
63. The organisation employs 13 employees, four of whom occupy management roles.
64. These quite explicitly linked vocational education with the low status black people were expected to occupy in the social hierarchy.
65. Yet the two presidents occupy the same hierarchical layer, have similar authority, and take home comparable salaries.
66. Their origins and histories are varied[sentencedict.com], but all occupy ground that was previously glaciated and many are ancient.
67. It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions.
68. That Begin had come from the far right, but that in order to govern he has to occupy the center.
69. Small households that don't use much water but occupy homes with high rateable values could be much better off.
70. There remained the problem of how to occupy his thoughts as he followed the old man.
71. Beetle larvae and adults usually occupy different habitats and rely on different food supplies.
72. Those who gave smoking up in later life occupy an intermediate position.
73. He saw that if an electron could occupy any orbit round a nucleus then a spiralling collapse was inevitable.
74. So we decided to occupy some unused land owned by Don Juan Lopez, the big landowner of our region.
75. The consequence may well be the forms of bureaucracy that so occupy the attention of administrative reformers.
76. Seven years after the Oslo accords several thousand settlers still occupy 40 % of the Gaza Strip.
77. Ecological theory holds that no two species can occupy exactly the same niche.
78. Staff communities will be created connected by job function, without the same need to occupy expensive real estate.
79. Pondering this would occupy a quarter of an hour, if not more.
80. The market traders rent stalls from the market manager, and usually occupy the same stalls on the same days.
81. Together with the University Library, they occupy the east and south sides.
82. These bridges were then finished without hindrance, and our heads of columns began to occupy the city.
83. Control of the money supply should occupy centre stage in the conduct of macroeconomic policy.
84. They had other problems now to occupy their minds, as well as Balliol's whereabouts.
85. Early into the strike, the university backed down, but a small core of radical students continued to occupy the campus.
86. Consumer goods occupy a much more contradictory place in the circulation and realisation of capital than do fixed assets.
87. Schoolchildren rioted in protest at examination fees; teachers planned a pay strike; and black activists threatened to occupy white schools.
88. Surprisingly, among the inside players the bureaucracy did not occupy a particularly important role.
89. Or, like Parliament Square, will it occupy the terrain of a symbolic gesture, alive in legend?
90. This matter ought to occupy a prominent place in the Election Manifesto.
More similar words: occupation, occur, soccer, accuse, occasional, on occasion, accurate, accuracy, the accused, occasionally, accusation, accurately.