occupy
suomi-englanti sanakirjaoccupy englannista suomeksi
täyttää jkn päivät
mietityttää
puuhailla
täyttää
asua
vallata, miehittää
viedä
astua
Verbi
pitää kiireisenä">pitää kiireisenä more common to use a causative structure, like "keep someone doing"
occupy englanniksi
To take or use.
To fill.
(ux)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
(senseid)To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
To hold the attention of.
To take or use space.
To fill space.
(RQ:Irving Tales of a Traveller)
(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae)
To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
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To place the theodolite or station at (a point).
To have intercourse with.Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language'', second edition, 1966.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-2)
1867, (w) ''A Glossary''
- OCCUPY, obsc. To possess, or enjoy.
- : These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word ''occupy''. ''2 Hen. IV'', ii, 4.
- : Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
- : For 's whore; Groyne still doth ''occupy'' his land. ''B. Jons. Epigr.'', 117.
- : Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as ''occupy'', nature, and the like. ''Ibid., Discoveries'', vol. vii, p. 119.
- It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
To do business in; to busy oneself with.
(RQ:KJV)
1551, (w) (tr.), Sir (w)'s ''(w)'' (in Latin), 1516
- not able to occupy their old crafts
To use; to expend; to make use of.
- They occupy not money themselves.