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Occupancy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OC'CUPANCY, n. [L. occupo, to take or seize; ob and capio, to seize.]
1. The act of taking possession.
2. In law, the taking possession of a thing not belonging to any person. the person who first takes possession of land is said to have or hold it by right of occupancy.
Occupancy gave the original right to the property in the substance of the earth itself.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: occupancy, tenancy]
2: the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal" [syn: occupation, occupancy, moving in]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -cies) Date: 1596 1. the fact or condition of holding, possessing, or residing in or on something <occupancy of the estate> 2. the act or fact of taking or having possession (as of unowned land) to acquire ownership 3. the fact or condition of being occupied <occupancy by more than 400 persons is unlawful> 4. the use to which a property is put <industrial occupancy> 5. a building or part of a building intended to be occupied (as by a tenant)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Occupancy Oc"cu*pan*cy, n. [See Occupant.] The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation. Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it. --Blackstone. Kent.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Occupancy is the act of using a room, building, or area of land, usually for a fixed period of time. (FORMAL) Hotel occupancy has been as low as 40%... = occupation N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Possession (for the time), tenure, holding, use, occupation, enjoyment.

Moby Thesaurus

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