Occupying Synonyms and Antonyms

Filling a place
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. holding
  2. obtaining
  3. remaining
  4. situated
  5. posted
  6. assigned to
  7. tenanting
  8. residing
  9. living in
  10. taking up
  11. possessing
  12. permeating
  13. pervading
  14. covering
  15. settled on
  16. controlling
  17. maintaining
  18. commanding
  19. sitting
  20. staying
  21. established in
  22. established at
  23. owning
  24. set up
  25. running
Antonyms:
  1. gone
  2. leaving
  3. removing
Keep busy with
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. engaging
  2. employing
  3. busying
Antonyms:
  1. idling
Engaging attention
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. absorbing
  2. concentrated upon
  3. utilizing
  4. engrossing
  5. attending upon
  6. concerned with
  7. embarking upon
  8. monopolizing
  9. engaging
  10. arresting
  11. working at
  12. attracting
  13. focusing
  14. drawing
  15. exacting
  16. requiring
To cause to be busy or in use
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. preempting
  2. monopolizing
  3. engaging
March aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. conquering
  2. invading
Antonyms:
  1. abandoning
  2. surrendering
  3. yielding
Occupy the whole of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. taking
  2. filling

Words Related to Occupying

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Occupying Sentence Examples

  • He felt ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else's place here beside Helene.

  • Anyone occupying the climber only area must wear crampons.

  • From what little she knew about etiquette, she was occupying the seat of the lady of the house.

  • Forage Crops.The mangold-wurzel, occupying four times the acreage of swedes and turnips, is by far the chief root-crop in France.

  • The principal buildings are the town hall, the county buildings, the assembly rooms, occupying the site of an old Franciscan monastery, three hospitals, a convalescent home, the Smyllum orphanage and the Queen Victoria Jubilee fountain.

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