occupy

1. 1

   To take or use.; To fill.transitive

   • The film occupied three hours of my time.
2. 2

   To take or use.; To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.transitive

   • The film occupied me for three hours.
   • I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day.
3. 3

   To take or use.; To fill or hold (an official position or role).transitive

   • I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.
4. 4

   To take or use.; To hold the attention of.transitive

   • I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.
5. 5

   To take or use space.; To fill space.transitive

   • The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.
6. 6

   To take or use space.; To live or reside in.transitive

   • The better apartments were already occupied.
7. 7

   To take or use space.; To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).transitive

   • The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […]
   • Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
8. 8

   To take or use space.; To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).transitive

9. 9

   To have sexual intercourse with.obsoletetransitive

   • 1867, Robert Nares A Glossary OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy. These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy. 2 Hen. IV, ii, 4. Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand For 's whore; Groyne still
10. 10

    To do business in; to busy oneself with.obsolete

    • not able to occupy their old crafts

syn. go to bed with · sleep with