Occupy

Definition

occupy /'ɒkjupaÇ/ v ( pt, pp - pied ) ၁။ ေနသည္။ The house next door has not been occupied for over a year. ❍ A firm of solicitors occupies the fourth floor. ၂။ သိမ္းပိုက္ သည္။ The army occupied the enemy's capital. ❍ the occupied territories. ၃။ ေနရာယူသည္။ အခ်ိန္ယူသည္။ The bed occupied most of the room. ❍ Looking after a large family occupies most of her time. ❍ He occupies a senior position in the company. ၄။ ~ sb/oneself (in doing sth/with sth) အခ်ိန္ ကုန္လြန္ေစသည္။ အခ်ိန္ျဖဳန္း သည္။ How does he occupy himself now that he's retired? ❍ She needs something to occupy her mind. ❍ The child occupied himself in playing video games. ၅။ သိမ္းပိုက္သည္။ The rebel forces have occupied the television station. ❏ occupied adj ၁။ သံုးစြဲေန[ေသာ]။ လူရိွ[ေသာ]။ The toilet was occupied. ❍ EMPTY adj ၂။ ~ ( in doing sth/with sth ) အလုပ္မ်ားေသာ။ အလုပ္႐ႈပ္ေသာ။ မအားလပ္ေသာ။ He's fully occupied in looking after/with three small children. ❍ She kept herself occupied knitting clothes for refugees.

Examples

1. The Smith family have occupied this farm for over a hundred years.
2. All the seats on the bus were occupied.
3. Warehouses occupied most of the site.
4. Commercial photography occupied much of his time.
5. The region was quickly occupied by foreign troops.
6. An occupying army/force
7. An estimated 3
8. 000 people assembled at Battery Park with the intention of occupying Wall Street.
9. I spoke at length with various religious folk during my time in Occupy London.
10. Members of the group occupy positions of power in the country.
11. I need some way to occupy the kids for an hour.
12. [keep someone occupied] : You keep him occupied down here while I check upstairs.
13. [be occupied with something] : He’s still fully occupied with writing his report.
14. [occupy yourself (with something)] : You need to find something to occupy yourself with when you retire.
15. These thoughts occupied my mind
16. though I tried to sleep.
17. The problem has been occupying me all week.
18. [be occupied with something] : My mind’s been too occupied with moving house to think about a holiday.