Occupy Occupied Work Time Office Verb Bre ˈɒkjupaɪ

• the bed seemed to occupy most of the room.
• how much memory does the program occupy?
• administrative work occupies half of my time.
• how do you occupy your time?

occupy

1. to fill or use a space, an area or an amount of time
• synonym take up something
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/take-up_2
• The bed seemed to occupy most of the room.
• How much memory does the program occupy?
• Administrative work occupies half of my time.
• How do you occupy your time?
• Their time is fully occupied with their rigorous training regime.
2. to live or work in a room, house or building
• See related entries: Buying a home
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/buying_a_home/occupy
• He occupies an office on the 12th floor.
3. to enter a place in a large group and take control of it, especially by military force
• The capital has been occupied by the rebel army.
• Protesting students occupied the TV station.
4. to fill your time or keep you busy doing something
• a game that will occupy the kids for hours
• Problems at work continued to occupy his mind for some time.
• She occupied herself with routine office tasks.
• She occupied herself doing routine office tasks.
5. to have an official job or position
• synonym hold
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hold_1
• The president occupies the position for four years.
• jobs that have traditionally been occupied by men

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they occupy
• he / she / it occupies
• past simple occupied
• past participle occupied
• -ing form occupying

Word Origin

• Middle English: formed irregularly from Old French occuper, from Latin occupare ‘seize’. A now obsolete vulgar sense ‘have sexual relations with’ seems to have led to the general avoidance of the word in the 17th and most of the 18th cent.