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OCCUPY

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occupy verb A. tranzitiv

1. a ocupa, a locui în;

I occupy the ground floor eu ocup parterul, locuiesc la parter.

2. a ocupa (un post o poziţie, o slujbă, o funcţie).

3. a ocupa, a pune mâna pe (o poziţie strategică, o ţară inamică).

4. a ocupa, a umple (un spaţiu).

5. a ocupa, a lua, a absorbi (timp, atenţie etc.);

to occupy one's time in / with doing smth. a-şi umple / a-şi ocupa / a-şi petrece timpul făcând ceva;

to be occupied in a se ocupa cu / de, a se îndeletnici cu.

6. a ocupa; a da de lucru (cuiva).

7. a administra, a exploata (o moşie).

8. (înv.) a poseda, a avea, a ţine în stăpânire.

occupy verb B. reflexiv

to occupy oneself with a se ocupa / a se îndeletnici cu.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It was a little inn where Mr. Micawber put up, and he occupied a little room in it, partitioned off from the commercial room, and strongly flavoured with tobacco-smoke.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He now resumed the book with which he had been occupied before tea.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

G-protein receptor kinases (GRKs) are a family of kinases that specifically phosphorylate only agonist-occupied GPCRs.

(Attenuation of GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The portion of tissue occupied by blood.

(Blood Volume Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)

The tissue occupying the spaces of bone.

(Bone marrow, NCI Thesaurus)

The physical volume occupied by a specific chromosome in the interphase nucleus.

(Chromosome Territory, NCI Thesaurus)

Your allowing yourself to be so occupied and so unhappy about Mr. Elton's marrying, Harriet, is the strongest reproach you can make me.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Miss Darcy's praise occupied the chief of it.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Both she and her husband had occupied the bed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The tables were arranged in three sides of a square, my uncle occupying the centre of the principal one, with the Prince upon his right and Lord Sele upon his left.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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