occupying
占领,占领的,占据着,占领着
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oc·cu·pied, oc·cu·py·ing.
- : to take or fill up: I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- : to engage or employ the mind, energy, or attention of: Occupy the children with a game while I prepare dinner.
- : to be a resident or tenant of; dwell in: We occupied the same house for 20 years.
- : to hold.
- : to take possession and control of, as by military invasion.
- : to participate in a protest about, as by taking possession or control of buildings or public places that are symbolic of the issue: Let’s Occupy our voting rights!The Occupy Wall Street movement of late 2011 was a protest against economic inequality.
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oc·cu·pied, oc·cu·py·ing.
- : to take or hold possession.
- : to participate in a protest about a social or political issue.
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Examples
Kinney suggested walking as an activity, both to occupy Carson’s time and to help him lose weight.
Afghan British writer Tahir Shah, inspired by childhood visits to his grandfather’s house in Morocco, uprooted his London family to occupy a crumbling palatial house in Casablanca.
Those properties are typically occupied by weak tenants and haven’t been remodeled in years.
She says that she was “more depressed” staying at home, isolated from her friends, with nothing to occupy her mind.
Going back to what I said to you earlier about how I hope young women are envisioning themselves in roles that are not currently occupied by women.
Hmm, who are these people standing in front of the machines at the gym, neither occupying them nor not occupying them?
Once, when occupying a cell in near a phone, I saw the suicide prevention protocols in action.
After Germany surrendered, Bennett was stationed there as part of the Allied occupying force.
They were close to occupying Mariupol, but they depend on Putin, who demonstrated his political will to stop the war.
But then the conversation turns to the question occupying all minds in Ukraine: Will Putin invade?
The Belmont house was closed, the still restless Helena occupying a palace in Rome at the moment.
Gwynne led Isabel to a table in a corner by a window, and indicated the company more than half of the long table.