Occupies is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OCCUPIES in dictionary:

VERB:
• OCCUPY, to reside in, also OCCUPATE
• fill or take up (a space or time)
• be situated in or at (a position in a system or hierarchy)
• hold (a position or job)
• fill or preoccupy (the mind)
• keep (someone) busy and active
• take control of (a place, especially a country) by military conquest or settlement
• enter and stay in (a building) without authority and often forcibly, especially as a form of protest
• reside or have one's place of business in (a building)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to engage the attention or energies of

Words related to OCCUPIES

occupied15 occupy15 occupying19

Words that contain OCCUPIES

reoccupies16 preoccupies19

How to use OCCUPIES in a sentence

• Sprenger, as director of the college, occupies a truly princely dwelling in it.
• The present building dates from the fourteenth century, and occupies the site of an earlier one, whose few remaining stones have been built into the present structure.
• It therefore follows that this excavation practically occupies the whole of that part of Back Cup island which appears above water.
• The amount of detail thus attended to is something immense, and the accuracy required occupies hour after hour.
• He returns, occupies a house very close to the princely residence, shares in the summer sojourn in Tiefurt, and now regards himself as a member of the household and of the court.
• In the all-important argument which occupies this epistle, Paul assumes, what the believing Hebrews had already profest, that Jesus of Nazareth is the true Messiah.
• Jock is here a fortnight, for he is badly wounded and occupies one of the few beds that the station boasts.
• The smallest trifle of that kind, occupies as long as the most important act of legislation, and takes place of every thing else.
• The whole trip down the river occupies two glorious hours.
• Yet she occupies a comparatively high position in the family, and no bargain is ever concluded until the husband has consulted his wife in the matter.
• It occupies an entire square, and is bounded by Centre and Elm, and Leonard and Franklin streets.
• It occupies the most conspicuous location in New York, and is one of the finest buildings of its kind in the world.
• It occupies the entire block bounded by Wall street, Exchange Place, William street, and Hanover street.
• Normally the journey from Alexandria to Mersa Matruh, whither we were bound, occupies about sixteen hours.
• That of the Democratic minority occupies eight columns of very fine print in the Congressional Record.
• He now occupies a post of honor and influence in a thriving State of our Union, where he is known as one of the most popular members of the bar.
• And therein lies the chief difference between the piece of human machinery your soul now occupies and that which it once directed over four thousand years ago.
• The census of these States shows how great a proportion of the whole population occupies the classes between infancy and manhood.
• Through speech man occupies the first rank in the scale of being.
• A little chapel cut out of the rock occupies the middle of the cavern, and both grotto and chapel are illuminated night and day.
• However, even in those towns where it occupies full time, the first twelve days are preliminary in nature.
• It is true that his eulogy is here also out of place, since he occupies an altogether peculiar position in literature, and a unique relation to his time and to his contemporaries.
• This plant here occupies an extremely limited space, and its greatest, and indeed almost only extent, is from south to north.
• Vicksburg occupies a kind of shoulder on the Mississippi side.
• The rods make twelve revolutions in a minute, and it occupies thirty minutes to rifle a barrel.
• Each thatched cottage occupies a clear space in the plantation, the trees forming a fence about it, double the height of the building.

Similar words containing OCCUPIE without suffix s

occupied15 occupier14 occupiers15 reoccupied17 reoccupies16 unoccupied17 preoccupied20 preoccupies19 underoccupied21 unpreoccupied22

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