occupancy
Syllables: oc·cu·pan·cy/ˈɑk.jə.p(ə)n.(t)si/
occupancy noun: the act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.
Noun
occupancy (countable and uncountable, plural occupancies)
- The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.
- The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or premises.
- They had a five-year occupancy on the house.
- The specific use to which something occupied is put.
- This building is for residential occupancy.
- A mode of acquiring title to a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it with an intent of acquiring such title.
- The federal government's occupancy of immigration law precludes state action.
- But if the matter pre-existing belong to none, then shall the Right be acquired by a kind of Occupancy: But if it it belong to another, then that the Right of Propriety descends not naturally unto us alone, will appear by what follows.1682, Hugo Grotius, chapter III, in William Evats, transl., The Most Excellent Hugo Grotius His Three Books Treating of the Rights of War and Peace …, Book II, translation of original in Latin, page...
- The expected frequency of a state.
occupancy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
occupancy in Tamil
- உடைமையாட்சி, குடியிருக்கை
occupancy in Urdu
- کرایہ دار, قبضہ, سکونت, تصرف
occupancy in Bengali
- দখল, বসবাস, অধিকার
occupancy in Telugu
- ఆక్యుపెన్సీ
More languagesFewer languages
- occupancy in Malayalam
- കുടിപാർപ്പ്, താമസം, വിനിവേശം, കുടിയിരുപ്പ്
- occupancy in Kannada
- ಸ್ವಾಧೀನತೆ, ಅನುಭೋಗ, ಶಾಶ್ವತ ಜಿರಾಯಿತಿ, ಅಧಿಭೋಗ
- occupancy in Indonesian
- okupansi
Examples of occupancy in a sentence
- The United States cannot acquire jurisdiction tortiously or by disseisin of the state, or by occupancy with merely the tacit consent of the state.
- Where on-street parking occupancy is high, bike lanes may be blocked by double parking, rendering them useless.
- In its purest form, YIMBYism would dispense with zoning and occupancy laws altogether, and let people build anything anywhere.
Antonyms of occupancy
Forms of occupancy
| plural | occupancies |
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Origin of occupancy
From occupant + -cy.
Words formed from occupancy
Phrases with occupancy
Questions about occupancy
- What does occupancy mean?
- Occupancy means the act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.
- What is occupancy in Tamil?
- Occupancy in Tamil is உடைமையாட்சி, குடியிருக்கை. See Occupancy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is occupancy?
- Occupancy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce occupancy?
- Occupancy is pronounced /ˈɑk.jə.p(ə)n.(t)si/ (US).
- What is the plural of occupancy?
- The plural of occupancy is occupancies.
Words near occupancy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: occupancy (page history and authors); occupancy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupancy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupancy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupancy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); occupancy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); occupancy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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