Synonyms for occupy
ˈɒk yəˌpaɪoc·cu·py

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1. occupyverb

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

   Synonyms:
   busy, employ

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1. occupy

   To entertain, in the sense here considered, is to engage and pleasantly occupy the attention; to amuse is to occupy the attention in an especially bright and cheerful way, often with that which excites merriment or laughter; as, he entertained us with an amusing story. To divert is to turn from serious thoughts or laborious pursuits to something that lightly and agreeably occupies the mind; one may be entertained or amused who has nothing serious or laborious from which to be diverted. To recreate, literally to re-create, is to engage mind or body in some pleasing activity that restores strength and energy for serious work. To beguile is, as it were, to cheat into cheer and comfort by something that insensibly draws thought or feeling away from pain or disquiet. We beguile a weary hour, cheer the despondent, divert the preoccupied, enliven a dull evening or company, gratify our friends' wishes, entertain, interest, please a listening audience, occupy idle time, disport ourselves when merry, recreate when worn with toil; we amuse ourselves or others with whatever pleasantly passes the time without special exertion, each according to his taste.

   Synonyms:
   amuse, beguile, cheer, delight, disport, divert, enliven, entertain, gratify, interest, please, recreate

   Antonyms:
   annoy, bore, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, weary

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1. occupy

   Synonyms:
   hold, possess, employ, fill, busy

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1. busy, occupyverb

   keep busy with

   "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"

   Synonyms:
   take, invade, reside, engage, lodge in, concern, worry, use up, engross, busy, interest, fill, absorb

2. occupy, reside, lodge inverb

   live (in a certain place)

   "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor"

   Synonyms:
   lodge in, invade, domicile, engross, shack, rest, repose, worry, absorb, engage, busy, concern, fill, reside, interest, take, domiciliate, use up

3. occupy, fillverb

   occupy the whole of

   "The liquid fills the container"

   Synonyms:
   lodge in, invade, fulfill, satisfy, replete, engross, make full, fulfil, meet, worry, satiate, absorb, engage, busy, concern, fill up, fill, reside, interest, take, sate, use up

4. concern, interest, occupy, worryverb

   be on the mind of

   "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"

   Synonyms:
   lodge in, invade, touch, engross, care, use up, matter to, have-to doe with, worry, touch on, absorb, engage, busy, fill, come to, relate, refer, reside, interest, take, pertain, bear on, vex, concern

5. invade, occupyverb

   march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation

   "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"

   Synonyms:
   lodge in, invade, encroach upon, engross, obtrude upon, intrude on, busy, worry, absorb, engage, reside, concern, overrun, fill, infest, interest, take, use up

6. take, occupy, use upverb

   require (time or space)

   "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"

   Synonyms:
   require, invade, subscribe to, withdraw, make, lead, ingest, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, busy, hold, choose, study, learn, fill, absorb, necessitate, consume, drive, hire, wipe out, consider, need, rent, run through, pick out, contract, adopt, film, remove, demand, exhaust, lease, take aim, deplete, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, engage, concern, eat up, claim, read, get, worry, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, engross, call for, take in, bring, submit, convey, interest, shoot, aim, direct, charter, eat, contain, lodge in, subscribe, reside, involve, acquire, look at, postulate, accept, guide, admit, ask, conduct

7. absorb, engross, engage, occupyverb

   consume all of one's attention or time

   "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"

   Synonyms:
   take in, suck up, affiance, enlist, plight, engross, use up, prosecute, lock, hire, soak up, take, worry, suck, employ, lodge in, fill, take over, invade, steep, concern, pursue, betroth, busy, sop up, lease, charter, imbibe, plunge, mesh, wage, reside, rent, interest, draw, assimilate, absorb, ingest, immerse, engulf, take up, operate, engage

8. fill, take, occupyverb

   assume, as of positions or roles

   "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"

   Synonyms:
   require, read, subscribe to, withdraw, lead, ingest, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, busy, hold, choose, fulfill, study, learn, fill, absorb, necessitate, consume, drive, fill up, consider, need, rent, pick out, sate, contract, adopt, film, remove, demand, lease, take aim, invade, meet, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, engage, concern, make, claim, satisfy, get, worry, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, engross, call for, take in, bring, submit, convey, interest, fulfil, shoot, aim, direct, charter, make full, contain, replete, lodge in, subscribe, reside, satiate, involve, acquire, look at, postulate, hire, accept, guide, admit, ask, conduct

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1. occupyverb

   Synonyms:
   possess (for the time), keep, hold, have possession of

2. occupyverb

   Synonyms:
   cover, fill, take up

3. occupyverb

   Synonyms:
   employ, busy, engage

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1. occupyverb

   Synonyms:
   hold, keep, possess, fill, engage, absorb, employ, busy, monopolize

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1. List of paraphrases for "occupy":

   occupies, hold, occupation, fill, occupying

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1. Andy Wong:

   Occupy Central has brought negative effects (to the equity market); some investors are worrying whether it will happen again.

2. Michael Bagdes-Canning:

   We went to Wilmington in June to send JPMorganChase a message - 15 of us elders were arrested in front of their credit card headquarters in rocking chairs. At that time we were demanding that Chase quit funding fossil projects. We at Occupy Biden had the same message - we called on President Biden to declare a climate emergency and to end all new fossil projects.

3. Chris Pocock:

   The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go.

4. Tin Fong Chak:

   One of the basic tenets of this class is to teach critical thinking, for instance, when we talk about Occupy Central, do you think this is right or wrong? We talk about how it impacts society.

5. Jason Ng:

   If 80 percent of people are well provided for, and if 20 percent want to do Occupy Central, it would only be a very small minority of people and it wouldn't gather as much momentum, but it's the opposite here. Eighty percent of people are upset because 20 percent control all the wealth.