{
    "term": "occupy",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "occupy",
            "heSheIt": "occupies"
        },
        "pastSimple": "occupied",
        "pastParticiple": "occupied",
        "ingForm": "occupying"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to fill or use a space, an area or an amount of time",
            "sensetop": "occupy something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The bed seemed to occupy most of the room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As the company grew, it continued to occupy more space."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Administrative work occupies half of my time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How do you occupy your time?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their time is fully occupied with their rigorous training regime."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to live or work in a room, house or building",
            "sensetop": "occupy something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He occupies an office on the 12th floor."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to enter a place in a large group and take control of it, especially by military force",
            "sensetop": "occupy something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The capital has been occupied by the rebel army."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Protesting students occupied the TV station."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to fill your time or keep you busy doing something",
            "sensetop": "occupy somebody/something/yourselfoccupy somebody/something/yourself with somebody/somethingoccupy somebody/something/yourself (in) doing something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a game that will occupy the kids for hours",
                    "contextForm": "occupy somebody/something/yourself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Problems at work continued **to occupy his mind** for some time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She occupied herself with routine office tasks.",
                    "contextForm": "occupy somebody/something/yourself with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She occupied herself doing routine office tasks.",
                    "contextForm": "occupy somebody/something/yourself (in) doing something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to have an official job or position",
            "sensetop": "occupy something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The president occupies the position for four years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "jobs that have traditionally been occupied by men"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "hold"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɒkjupaɪ/",
                "audio": "oc/occupy/occupy__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɒkjupaɪz/",
                "audio": "oc/occupy/occupies__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɒkjupaɪd/",
                "audio": "oc/occupy/occupied__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɒkjupaɪɪŋ/",
                "audio": "oc/occupy/occupying__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːkjupaɪ/",
                "audio": "oc/occupy/occupy__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːkjupaɪz/",
                "audio": "oc/occupy/occupies__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːkjupaɪd/",
                "audio": "oc/occupy/occupied__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɑːkjupaɪɪŋ/",
                "audio": "oc/occupy/occupying__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: formed irregularly from Old French occuper, from Latin occupare ‘seize’. A now obsolete vulgar sense ‘have sexual relations with’ seems to have led to the general avoidance of the word in the 17th and most of the 18th cent."
}