Usually means: Takes up space or position.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. occupies: Merriam-Webster
  2. occupies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occupies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. occupies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Occupies, occupies: Wordnik
  6. occupies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. occupies: Wiktionary
  8. occupies: Dictionary.com
  9. occupies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. occupies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occupies: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occupies: Encyclopedia

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  1. occupies: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Occupy)

verb:  (transitive, of time) To take or use.
verb:  To fill.
verb:  To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
verb:  To fill or hold (an official position or role).
verb:  To hold the attention of.
verb:  (transitive) To take or use space.
verb:  To fill space.
verb:  To live or reside in.
verb:  (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
verb:  (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
verb:  (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
verb:  (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
noun:  Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”)
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