1 (of an army or group of people) to move into and take control and/or possession of a place:
2 (of an army or group of people) to move into and take control or possession of a place:
6 to have a particular job:
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.
In occupying and exploiting the mysterious space of the sacred in our contemporary 'secular' world, the nation revitalises the profane.
The songs characteristically sing of deceased men as having occupied a series of places that are now being reclaimed by the anonymity of the forest.
We have until recently been one-dimensionally occupied with older people as targets of politics rather than as actual or potential actors.
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填充, 佔有,佔用,佔據(空間或時間), 使(某人)忙於…
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ocupar, ocuparse…
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(場所、時間など)を占める, (~で)忙しくさせる, (家、部屋など)を使っている…
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işgal etmek, doldurmak, yer kaplamak…
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