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de-occupy

de-occupy is the alternative spelling of deoccupy.

Meaning of deoccupy

Verb

deoccupy (third-person singular simple present deoccupies, present participle deoccupying, simple past and past participle deoccupied)

  1. To remove an occupation from (a place).
    • Estonia and Latvia also had more radical nationalist groups, known as Citizens Congresses, which advocated “deoccupying” the region by sending Russian migrants and their families back to Russia. Support for the Soviet regime was[…]2021 June 22, Zsuzsa Csergő, Daina S. Eglitis, Paula M. Pickering, Central and East European Politics: Changes and Challenges, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 403

Forms of de-occupy

third-person singular presentde-occupies
present participlede-occupying
past participlede-occupied
pastde-occupied

Questions about de-occupy

What is de-occupy the alternative spelling of?
De-occupy is the alternative spelling of deoccupy.

Words near de-occupy in the dictionary

  1. de-nazifies
  2. de-nazify
  3. de-nazifying
  4. de-occupied
  5. de-occupies
  6. de-occupy
  7. de-occupying
  8. de-oligarchisation
  9. de-oligarchization
  10. de-paganise
  11. de-paganised

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