Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
👥 Number of people 🏠 Living in a place
occupancy

occupancy

11 4.6
Living in or using a building
  • noun
  • /ˈɑkjəpənsi/
translation icon : ocupación
  • The hotel offers discounts for double occupancy to encourage more guests.
  • use and occupancy
  • occupancy, tenants
  • land occupancy

And I think that most people kind of focus on income and they focus on occupancy a lot.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • See, the building was ready for occupancy before this was finished.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • ... now ready for occupancy on Track C.

    The Narrow Margin (1952)

  • If our new marketing campaign couldn't raise our occupancy rate, Blue Moon would have to close.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Occupancy warning on floor 98.

    Skyscraper (2018)

  • The renter should agree to a revision as long as total occupancy costs do not increase.

    Academic text (1991)

  • But if there's a request for more time, depending on our occupancy, that's usually not a problem.

    Little Children (2006)

  • Do you realize how many rules you've broken... regarding a single-occupancy room in the state of Louisiana?

    Let's Do It Again (1975)

  • The BRAC 2005 mandated deadline for occupancy was September 2011; that was never met.

    Blog text (18)

  • The apartment is now available for occupancy starting next week.

  • We are excited about the high occupancy rates in our new building this year.

Synonyms

moving in
vsoccupancy
82 2.7

The time when you begin to live in a new home

is the ongoing state or condition after that initial move
residence
vsoccupancy
72 3.3

Living in a place for a period, often for legal reasons

is broader, covering use or possession not only living
habitation
vsoccupancy
6 4.2

The act of living in a place as a home

is the general act of using or possessing buildings beyond home sense
tenancy
vsoccupancy
4 3.8

A period when someone rents a house or flat

is the general act or state without legal or time limitations
occupation
vsoccupancy
1 4.6

Moving into and using a building without the owner's permission

is about using, living in, or possessing without the sense of forceful control
inhabitancy
vsoccupancy
1 7.8

The state of living permanently in a place

is broader and includes temporary or nonpermanent use or possession
inhabitation
vsoccupancy
1 6.6

Living in a place as a permanent home

is the general act or state, not focused on permanence
inhabitance
vsoccupancy
6.0

Living in a place

is about using or possessing buildings for living, not only stating the fact
abidance
vsoccupancy
  • Archaic
9.9

Staying in a place for a period of time

is about use, living, or possession more neutrally and broadly

Antonyms

abandonment
  • Formal
6 5.9

Giving up ownership of property with no plan to take it back

vacancy
5 2.7

An empty space or area with nothing in it

Compounds

occupancy rate
  • Specialized
2 4.1

The percentage of available rooms or units that are occupied

hotel occupancy
  • Specialized
1 3.2

The percentage of a hotel's rooms that are occupied at a time

hospital occupancy
  • Specialized
3.8

The part of hospital beds used by patients at a certain time

occupancy rate
  • Specialized
4.8

The percentage of available computer resources like memory or storage that are in use

How Occupied

overcrowding
22 2.8
occupancy
11 4.6
vacancy
5 2.7

Surface Forms

occupancy singular
occupancies plural

Morphology

occupancy = occupy (transparent) = occup + ancy

Formed by a regular nominalization of the verb 'occupy' to indicate a state or condition, which learners can readily infer.

Etymology

Occupancy comes from the Latin verb occupare, built from ob- 'against' and capere 'to take', and it shares the same root as occupy and capture. So occupancy is the state of 'taking' or using a place — for example, living in or possessing a building.