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occupation
  1. An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
  2. The act, process or state of possessing a place.
  3. The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “His occupation as a Wall Street executive is little more than a sinecure.”
      “It has been just a matter of ten years since he commenced with his occupation of painting.”
      “In April of 1990, the claimant commenced his occupation of the premises.”
occupancy
  1. The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.
  2. The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or premises.
  3. The specific use to which something occupied is put.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “During the month preceding his occupancy of the property, the petitioner did not do anything towards promoting the sale or rental of the property.”
      “The average occupancy is nine months and intensive management is the key to our success in keeping down the number of empty flats.”
      “Even with extra seats placed in the aisles, occupancy was far more than 100 per cent at both the concerts we attended.”
occupant
  1. A person who occupies a place or a position.
  2. An owner or tenant of a property.
  3. A person sitting in a car or other vehicle.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The American people were inundated on a daily basis with new and ever more salacious bits of gossip about the occupant of the Oval Office.”
      “The seals overran the sole occupant of the station in 1971, forcing him into the ocean with headbutts and angry braying.”
      “The warm floor helps heat the building and maintain occupant comfort, even after sunset.”
occupier
  1. One who occupies, particularly with respect to a foreign government controlling the territory of another.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Routine circumstances include calls made by an occupier following the activation of fire or burglar alarms.”
      “There are various statutes giving regulatory authorities powers to require clean-up by the polluter or the owner or occupier of land.”
      “The respondent owed the appellant only the ordinary general duty of care owed by an occupier to a lawful entrant.”
occupance
  1. occupancy
  2. Examples:
    1. “Multiple entitlements vitiate demands based on prior existence, occupance, use and discovery.”
      “Like all geographic field methods, it attempts an accurate quantitative portrayal of the occupance pattern.”
      “Modern Hopis and Navajos parade as hoary traditionalists, rightful stewards by ancestral occupance.”
occupations
  1. plural of occupation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Every year a lot of new people are sucked into the media occupations, while at the same time a lot of people leave.”
      “Of course, these are headline-level statistics, aggregating sectors and occupations.”
      “The work of construction laborers is closely related to other construction occupations.”
occupances
  1. plural of occupance
occupancies
  1. plural of occupancy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Of the remaining 13,000 cases, the Government claims that only 20 per cent relate to illegal or multiple occupancies.”
      “Room occupancies and average rates have seen a steady improvement as the hotel adjusts its market mix and product line up.”
      “Quick response sprinklers with fusible elements that are highly responsive to the change in the temperatures are used in residential occupancies.”
occupants
  1. plural of occupant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Strangely, none of the powerful planetary sensor stations could detect the shuttle or its four occupants.”
      “In their dug-out, the occupants were shouting for the referee to blow for time. Their supporters were poised for the celebratory yells.”
      “In an office structure, for example, most of the occupants will be ambulatory and capable of proceeding to a safe zone or the exit stairs.”
occupiers
  1. plural of occupier
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The houses are exempt from stamp duty for owner occupiers and also benefit from mortgage interest relief for investors.”
      “The resistance movement has pinned down our soldiers and contractors as enemy occupiers.”
      “There are a lot of owner occupiers and every compulsory purchase order will be challenged at a public inquiry.”
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