0 present participle of occupy
2 (of an army or group of people) to move into and take control and/or possession of a place:
The programme will occupy that half-hour slot before the nine o'clock news.
Historically, issues of this kind have not occupied the foreground of political debate.
He occupies a prominent position in the rogues' gallery of the financial world.
The house occupies a commanding position at the top of the valley.
Many of those occupying the other royalist camp adopted not dissimilar views.
Occupying intersticial positions between genres, performance venues and levels of cultural artefact, burlesques breached cultural categories within the theatrical world.
Of course, it remains to be determined whether these populations are connected to other populations, occupying natural or artificial habitats.
