to occupy
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5.9
- verb
- /ˈɑːkjəˌpaɪ/
:
ocupar
- And then Saddam decided to occupy Kuwait.
- occupied territories
- occupied land
- an occupied country
Just because we don't like that government doesn't mean that we can just send troops and occupy their oil fields.
- Just because we don't like that government doesn't mean that we can just send troops and occupy their oil fields.
- We're still in a situation half a century later where a NATO member state occupies half of an EU member state.
- And I said these guys really don't understand that we are going to be an invading and occupying force.
- And the problem is, and we've known this from prior research, Russia does not have enough troops to occupy.
- Yes, scanner Bob then scanner beg was so he he helped repel the Ottomans when once they had actually occupied Albania.
- We don't want, because you try and occupy a country, which is what Russia would have to do, or occupy those, those regions.
- And so I think it's leaving many people who feel like the moral situation with Israel having to occupy the West Bank, otherwise known as Judea and Samaria.
- Before it was precisely the tragic discovery of those we had, the land of whom we had occupied.
Examples
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Allied troops soon occupied Damascus and Aleppo.
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Following the 1905 Revolution in Russian-occupied Poland, a new wave of political activists reached the United States.
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And it's about the moment when the French have come over to occupy the land.
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Six weeks later, Russian troops occupy the city of Erzogram.
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We don't want, because you try and occupy a country, which is what Russia would have to do, or occupy those, those regions.
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They've occupied the town, sir.
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Imagine that Germany today only occupies northern France and not southern France, as was the case in 1940.
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We're still in a situation half a century later where a NATO member state occupies half of an EU member state.
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The English army in their red uniforms occupied the village of Castlegard.
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Allied troops soon occupied Damascus and Aleppo during their campaign.
Synonyms
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3.7
To take control of a place by force or to beat something hard like a fear
380
4.4
To enter another country with soldiers to take control
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4.6
To take something using legal power, often for a short time
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7.0
Take control of a place by force, usually quickly
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Etymology
Occupy comes from the Latin occupare, from ob- and capere meaning 'to take', the same root as capture, which is why an army that occupies a place 'takes' control of it.