Occupy
To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
To do business in; to busy one's self with.
To use; to expend; to make use of.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To hold possession; to be an occupant.
To follow business; to traffic.
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Occupy Quotations
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma Bombeck
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Colin Powell
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
Colin Powell
Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.
Henry L. Stimson
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Maimonides
Occupy Translations
occupy in Dutch is bezetten, beslaan, bekleden
occupy in Finnish is varata
occupy in French is occupons, percevoir, occupez, occuper, occupent
occupy in German is belegen, belegen, besetzen
occupy in Italian is incassare, occupare
occupy in Norwegian is besette
occupy in Portuguese is ocupe, ocupar
occupy in Spanish is ocupar
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