When you spend a lot of your free time reading tea leaves, you occupy yourself with that pastime, meaning it takes up your time and keeps you busy.
To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
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engage or engross wholly; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"
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march aggressively into another''s territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
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as of time or space; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
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keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
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live (in a certain place)
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occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container"
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be present in; be inside of
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be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant"
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.
v. i.
To follow business; to traffic.
Occupy
Woe occupieth the fine [/end] of our gladness.
The better apartments were already occupied.. 2.
An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six.
They occupied themselves about the Sabbath.4.
All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
Not able to occupy their old crafts.5.
All the gold that was occupied for the work.
They occupy not money themselves.6.
Occupy
To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
To hold possession; to be an occupant.
Usage Examples
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
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Other Usage ExamplesRussia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.
We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
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