occupy

Meanings

1. To take or use.
2. To fill.
3. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
4. To fill or hold (an official position or role).
5. To hold the attention of.
6. To take or use space.
7. To fill space.
8. To live or reside in.
9. To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
10. To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
11. To have sexual intercourse with.
12. To do business in; to busy oneself with.

1. Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”).

Etymology

From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capiō (“to take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.