OCCUPY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for OCCUPY?

Need another word that means the same as “occupy”? Find 60 synonyms and 30 related words for “occupy” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Occupy” are: absorb, engage, engross, concern, interest, worry, take, use up, fill, invade, busy, lodge in, reside, inhabited, live in, inhabit, be the tenant of, tenant, be ensconced in, be established in, establish oneself in, take up residence in, make one's home in, settle in, move into, full, taken, take up, fill up, cover, extend over, utilize, hold, be in, have, employ, distract, preoccupy, hold the attention of, immerse, involve, entertain, divert, amuse, beguile, on the job, capture, seize, take possession of, conquer, overrun, take over, colonize, garrison, annex, dominate, subjugate, hegemonize, commandeer, requisition

Occupy as a Verb

Definitions of "Occupy" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “occupy” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Keep (someone) busy and active.
• Hold (a position or job.
• Be on the mind of.
• Consume all of one's attention or time.
• Enter and stay in (a building) without authority and often forcibly, especially as a form of protest.
• Be situated in or at (a position in a system or hierarchy.
• Take control of (a place, especially a country) by military conquest or settlement.
• Require (time or space.
• Assume, as of positions or roles.
• Reside or have one's place of business in (a building.
• Fill or preoccupy (the mind.
• Fill or take up (a space or time.
• Keep busy with.
• Live (in a certain place.
• March aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation.
• Occupy the whole of.

Synonyms of "Occupy" as a verb (60 Words)

absorb	Take up, as of debts or payments. The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax.
amuse	Make (somebody) laugh. The play amused the ladies.
annex	Add (territory) to one’s own territory by appropriation. Hitler annexed Lithuania.
be ensconced in	Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun.
be established in	Represent, as of a character on stage.
be in	Represent, as of a character on stage.
be the tenant of	Occupy a certain position or area.
beguile	Charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way. To beguile some of the time they went to the cinema.
busy	Keep busy with. She busied herself with her new home.
capture	Bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit. Jupiter s gravity captured a small percentage of these planetesimals.
colonize	(of a plant or animal) establish itself in (an area. A small town in a part of the Hudson Valley fast being colonized by weekenders.
commandeer	Take arbitrarily or by force. The truck was commandeered by a mob.
concern	Be relevant to. Don t concern yourself old boy my lips are sealed.
conquer	Overcome by conquest. Conquer a country.
cover	Cover as if with a shroud. The table had been covered with a checked tablecloth.
distract	Divert one’s attention from something unpleasant by doing something different or more pleasurable. The thief distracted the bystanders.
divert	Send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one. Although the audience members were diverted by this new symphony critics disliked it.
dominate	Be greater in significance than. Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood.
employ	Put into service make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose. The firm employs 150 people.
engage	Engage or hire for work. They attempted to engage Anthony in conversation.
engross	Absorb all the attention or interest of. The country had made the best of its position to engross trade.
entertain	Provide entertainment for. Sunday lunchtime is the best time to entertain.
establish oneself in	Set up or found.
extend over	Continue or extend.
fill	Fill to satisfaction. Community land trusts are a way to fill the pressing need for housing.
fill up	Plug with a substance.
full	Of the moon or tide become full. Full the cloth.
garrison	Station troops in a fort or garrison. French troops were garrisoned at Phillipsburg.
have	Have a personal or business relationship with someone. Have a lover.
hegemonize	Subject (a population, region, process, etc.) to a dominant political or social power. Globalization hegemonizes and controls the urban as well as rural poor.
hold	Lessen the intensity of temper hold in restraint hold or keep within limits. I ll have that coffee now if the offer still holds.
hold the attention of	Hold the attention of.
immerse	Cause to be immersed. She immersed herself in her work.
inhabit	Be an inhabitant of or reside in. A bird that inhabits North America.
inhabited	Be present in.
interest	Excite the curiosity of engage the interest of. I thought the book might interest Eliot.
invade	(of a parasite or disease) spread into (an organism or bodily part. He felt his privacy was being invaded.
involve	Cause to participate in an activity or situation. His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon.
live in	Lead a certain kind of life live in a certain style.
lodge in	Provide housing for.
make one's home in	Appear to begin an activity.
move into	Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.
on the job	Work occasionally.
overrun	Continue beyond or above an expected or allowed time or cost. The Mediterranean has been overrun by tourists.
preoccupy	Engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively. His mother was preoccupied with paying the bills.
requisition	Make a formal request for official services. The government had assumed powers to requisition cereal products at fixed prices.
reside	Make one’s home in a particular place or community. May parents reside in Florida.
seize	Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force take as one s right or possession. Fear seized the prisoners.
settle in	Settle into a position usually on a surface or ground.
subjugate	Put down by force or intimidation. The new ruler firmly subjugated the Church to the state.
take	Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs. He takes the bus to work.
take over	Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.
take possession of	Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression.
take up	Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.
take up residence in	Engage for service under a term of contract.
taken	Be designed to hold or take.
tenant	Occupy as a tenant. The house was tenanted by his cousin.
use up	Use up consume fully.
utilize	Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose. Vitamin C helps your body utilize the iron present in your diet.
worry	(of a dog or other carnivorous animal) tear at or pull about with the teeth. I began to worry whether I had done the right thing.

Usage Examples of "Occupy" as a verb

• A very different job from any that he had occupied before.
• Sarah occupied herself taking the coffee cups over to the sink.
• The workers occupied the factory.
• Her mind was occupied with alarming questions.
• The Bank of England occupies a central position in the UK financial system.
• The rented flat she occupies in Hampstead.
• The young prince will soon occupy the throne.
• Two long windows occupied almost the whole of the end wall.
• Syria was occupied by France under a League of Nations mandate.

Associations of "Occupy" (30 Words)

abide	Be unable to tolerate (someone or something. Many unskilful Men do abide in our City of London.
abode	A place of residence; a house or home. My humble abode.
citizen	A legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized. A British citizen.
county	Relating to or characteristic of aristocratic people with an ancestral home in a particular county. One of the most attractive towns in the county.
denizen	A foreigner allowed certain rights in their adopted country. Denizens of the deep.
domicile	Law the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where whenever you are absent you intend to return every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time. The tenant is domiciled in the United Kingdom.
dwell	Live in or at a specified place. This kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean.
dweller	A person who inhabits a particular place. City dwellers.
dwelling	Housing that someone is living in. He built a modest dwelling near the pond.
engross	Devote (oneself) fully to. The country had made the best of its position to engross trade.
engulf	(of a natural force) sweep over (something) so as to surround or cover it completely. A feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him.
fill	Material typically loose or compacted which fills a space especially in building or engineering work. The theater filled up slowly.
habitable	Suitable or good enough to live in. The habitable world.
habitant	An inhabitant. The habitant farmhouses of old Quebec.
habitat	A person’s usual or preferred surroundings. A marine habitat.
habitation	The fact of living in a particular place. He studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony.
home	Provide with or send to a home. A home win.
homestead	Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead.
inhabit	Be an inhabitant of or reside in. Sweet memories inhabit this house.
inhabitant	A person who fulfils the residential or legal requirements for being a member of a state or parish.
mansion	A terrace or mansion block. Carlyle Mansions.
monopolize	Have or exploit a monopoly of. OPEC wants to monopolize oil.
municipal	Of or relating to the government of a municipality. Municipal offices.
neighborhood	People living near one another. He always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood.
niche	Place something in a niche or recess. Her bed was tucked into a niche in the wall.
populate	Fill in (data). The island is populated by scarcely 40 000 people.
reside	(of a quality) be present or inherent in something. She resides in Princeton.
resident	An intelligence agent in a foreign country. Arctic residents are joined annually by long distance migrants.
territory	An area of knowledge, activity, or experience. Don t go committing murders on my territory.
township	(in South Africa) a suburb or city of predominantly black occupation, formerly officially designated for black occupation by apartheid legislation. Township theatre.