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/ˈɑkjəpənsi/ Listen

noun

Occupancy n.

The act of taking or holding possession, especially of real property or rental property; possession; occupation.

The state or condition of being occupied; as, occupancy by more than 250 people is dangerous and unlawful.

The period of time during which one occupies a property.

Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it.

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Etymology of 'Occupancy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Occupancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... receives a salary of twenty-five thousand dollars a year. In France, the President of the Republic receives four hundred thousand dollars a year, and yet, even with that vast sum, can not keep up an establishment at all in accordance with the dwellings of grandeur which invite his occupancy, and which unceasingly and irresistibly stimulate to regal pomp and to regal extravagance. The palaces of France have a vast influence upon the present politics of France. There is an unceasing conflict between those marble walls of monarchical splendor, and the principles ...

— Napoleon Bonaparte • John S. C. Abbott

... another day brought the Brigade to a recent Rebel camp ground. Traces of their occupancy were found not only in their depredations in the neighborhood destructive of railroad bridges, but also in letters and wall-paper envelopes adorned with the lantern-jawed phiz of Jefferson Davis. The latter were sought after with avidity as soon as ranks were broken ...

— Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals - As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac • William H. Armstrong

... what they call "roughing it," in Santa Barbara,' quoth Dr. Winship. 'Why, you youngsters have made that tent fit for the occupancy of a ...

— A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... in Soldachia to the Minor Friars of that place, reserving life-occupancy to his son Nicolo ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... the Western Isles and the Highlands, considerable Norse elements are found as the result of Norse occupancy that continued in the Isles, at least, for several hundred years. A number of words that have come into Gaelic and Irish from Norse are also found in Lowland Scotch. In some cases it seems that the word has not come into Lowland Scotch direct from Norse, but ...

— Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch • George Tobias Flom

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