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Definitions: Occupancy |
OccupancyNoun1. An act of being a tenant or occupant. 2. The act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "occupancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
Note: Occupancy \Oc"cu*pan*cy\, noun. [See Occupant.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Transportation | For a given cross section and time interval, the percentage of time during which the road is occupied by a vehicle across the section. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: OccupancySynonyms: moving in (n), occupation (n), taking possession (n), tenancy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Participation | Noun: participation; cotenancy, joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation. |
Possession | Noun: possession, seizin, seisin; ownership; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency; villenage, villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service. |
Presence | Noun: presence; occupancy, occupation; attendance; whereness. |
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Screenplays | Under the terms of the Roman occupancy, we're entitled to be crucified in a purely Jewish area. (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) The feast of Maximum Occupancy. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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 | End of Japanese occupancy.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | These two houses were among the structures in Washington, D.C. considered good enough for Negro occupancy until they were demolished to make way for a housing project--The girl in the foreground is standing by an old wooden well.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | These regimens result in an estimated 75 percent occupancy of available corticosteroid receptors, which should provide a near maximal induction of antenatal corticosteroid receptor-mediated response in fetal target tissues. (references) | |
Business | The hotel reported 80% occupancy in the first year of operation. (references) | |
Most of Vietnams 800 hospitals are generally unsanitary and overcrowded with patient occupancy rates that have fluctuated up to 120% of the bed capacity. (references) | ||
It is estimated that occupancy levels when compared to yearly figure is 59.6% during the high season (October April) and 24.7% during the low season (June August). (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | The CAN offices in Zamfara and Sokoto states alleged that local authorities there delayed or denied to Christians certificates of occupancy (CO's), which are required to show title to land. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The Human Rights Chamber decided that apartments owned by JNA officers should be returned; the Chamber also left open the possibility that those apartments to which officers had occupancy rights should also be returned. (references) | |
Economic History | Oman | The peak season for hotel occupancy in Muscat is October through March. (references) |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The Chamber issued similar decisions ordering local authorities to reinstate occupancy rights holders into homes in Novo Sarajevo, Srpska Ilidza, Sanski Most, and Sarajevo. (references) |
Colombia | Medellin's Bellavista prison, the country's largest, housed 6,219 inmates at year's end although it originally was built to house 1,800 inmates (a 245 percent occupancy rate). (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Since the war, large numbers of citizens have been unable to reclaim their property, either privately or collectively owned, to which they had occupancy rights under the Communist system. (references) | |
Political Economy | Vietnam | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) is a one-Party state controlled by the Vietnamese Communist Party (CPV). The CPV's constitutionally mandated leading role, the occupancy of nearly all senior government positions by party officials, and the Party's extensive network down to the village level and through mass organizations ensures the primacy of guidelines from the Party's ruling group, the Politburo. (references) |
Worker Rights | Morocco | The Government has the authority to break up demonstrations in public areas that do not have government authorization, or to prevent the unauthorized occupancy of private space such as a factory. (references) |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | In such a conjuncture I did not delay the interposition required for the occupancy of the territory west of the river Perdido, to which the title of the United States extends, and to which the laws provided for the Territory of Orleans are applicable. |
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| "Occupancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Occupancy" is used about 252 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 252 | 18,696 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "occupancy": admission and bed occupancy committee ♦ Bed Occupancy ♦ high occupancy vehicle lane management ♦ hospital occupancy ♦ hotel occupancy ♦ occupancy rate ♦ ownership occupancy ♦ ready for occupancy ♦ Title by occupancy. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "occupancy": multi-occupancy, owner-occupancy, under-occupancy. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "occupancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zotërim (assimilation, command, dominance, domination, enjoyment, grasp, holding, keeping, lordship, mastership, mastery, occupation, ownership, possession, tenure), zënie (affray, blockage, capture, fight, occupation, quarrel, strife, wrangling), mbajtje (delivery, deterrence, grip, gripe, hold, holding, keeping, maintenance, prehension, preservation, retention, support, tenure, tote, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وضع اليد (entry, occupation), تملك (holding, ownership, possess, possession), إحتلال (conquest, occupation, takeover, taking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | срок на владение, срок на обитаване, владение (demesne, domain, keeping, ownership, possession, tenure), обитаване (dwelling, habitation, indwelling, inhabitation), заемане (borrowing, occupation), период на владение, период на обитаване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 居住 (Dwell, Dwelled, Dwelt, inhabit, inhabited, Inhabiting, Lived, living, reside, Resided, residency, Residing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | belægningsgrad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eerste bezitter, eerste bezitnemer, bezettingsgraad (crowding, crowding level, stocking, stocking level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تصرف (Occupation, Possession, Seizure, Tenure), سکنی (Habitancy), سکونت (Habitancy), اشغال مال , اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tenure, Tot, Trash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valtaukseen perustuva hallinta, ensimmäiseen haltuunottoon perustuva hallinta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | occupation (occupation, ocupation), taux d'occupation, possession à titre de premier occupant, densité d'occupation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | besitzergreifung (appropriation, seizure), Belegung (allocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυκλοφορία ελεύθερης ροής, κατοχή (occupation, possession, seizin, tenancy, tenure), βαθμός κατάληψης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תפיסות (incumbency, perceptibility), אחיזה (anchorage, clutch, grasp, gripe, hold, holding, seizing, support, tenure), החזקת דירה (occupation), דירות (tenantry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | birtoklás (holding, ownership, possession, tenure), birtokbavétel (entry, occupation), elfoglalás (annexation, occupation, seizure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pemilikan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | occupazione (activity, avocation, business, calling, employ, employmen, employment, job, occupation, squatting, tenure, work), tasso di occupazione, possesso come primo occupante, grado di occupazione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 駐屯 (stationing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちゅうとん (stationing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 점령 (lodgement, lodgment, Occupation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cummaltaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | occupancyay ocupação (avocation, business, busyness, calling, chore, duty, employ, employment opportunity, engagement, job, labor, labour, occupation, office, pluck, profession, racket, service, tenure, work, works). (various references) ocupare (holding, occupation, seizure), stãpânire temporarã (occupation), posesiune temporarã (occupation), luare în posesiune (appropriation, eviction, occupation), domiciliere (domiciliation), arendã (land rent, lease, occupation, rent, tenancy). (various references) временное владение, занятие (business, calling, class, engagement, exercise, job, metier, occupation, ploy, shebang, trade, walk of life, walks of life), аренда (hire, lease, rent, rental). (various references) zauzimanje (occupation), stanovanje (habitation, inhabitancy, inhabitation, lodgement, lodgment), posed (acre, possession, property), držanje (attitude, bearing, carriage, hold, holding, manner, mien, observance, pose, posture, setup). (various references) ocupación (avocation, emplacement, employment, encroachment, job, line, occupation, profession, pursuit, sit in, tenure, usurpation, work). (various references) ockupation (occupation), innehavande (possessing, possessory, tenancy), besittningstagande (entry, occupation, possession, seizure), besittningsrätt (seisin, seizin, tenure), beläggningsgrad. (various references) การครอบครอง. (various references) oturma (fit, habitation, inhabitation, living, occupation, residence, sitting, stay, staying), kullanım süresi, işgal (occupation), doluluk oranı. (various references) строк володіння, володіння (acres, demesne, domain, dominions, enjoyment, having, lordship, occupation, ownership, possession, tenancy, tenantry, tenure), оренда (co-tenancy, lease, renting, tenancy), заволодіння (occupation), займання (occupation). (various references) sự chiếm giữ thời gian chiếm đóng, sự chiếm đóng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "occupancy": preoccupancy. (additional references) | |
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"Occupancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: occupance. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "occupancy" (pronounced Ä"kyupunsē) |
| 5 | -p u n s ē | discrepancy. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-n-o-p-u-y" | |
-3 letters: canopy, occupy, yaupon. | |
-4 letters: capon, coypu, cyano, uncap, uncoy, yapon, yucca, yupon. | |
-5 letters: capo, coca, cony, copy, coup, cyan, pony, puna, puny, unco, upon, yaup, yuan, yuca. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-c-n-o-p-u-y" | |
+3 letters: preoccupancy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 63 63 75 70 61 6E 63 79 |
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