"occupy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

occupy verbo

occupy + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 102
occupy the part • occupy London • occupy one's mind • occupy one's time • occupy several feet • occupy one's attention • ...
verbo + occupy
Kolokacji: 5
keep occupied • continue to occupy • find occupied • come to occupy • begin occupying
occupy + preposición
Kolokacji: 37
occupied by • occupy until • occupied since • occupied during • occupied with • ...
occupy + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 70
once occupied • formerly occupied • fully occupied • originally occupied • later occupied • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(1) once, formerly
Kolokacji: 2
(2) fully, well, easily
Kolokacji: 3
(6) illegally, legally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) temporarily, permanently
Kolokacji: 2
(8) normally, commonly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
  • With them happily occupied, she explained to lisa what had been happening since their last contact.
  • The prizes should keep the winners happily occupied during the Easter break.
  • If the Christmas vacation looms as a challenge to keep one's offspring happily occupied, take heart.
  • The King was occupied happily with his stones.
  • With the fiend happily occupied at home, I lived as a free man in Manhattan.
  • And there's plenty to keep them happily occupied.
  • Figuring ways to do that kept Bruck happily occupied till quit-ting time.
  • With the children happily occupied between 10am and 1pm each day, Paul and I managed to get in some proper skiing.
  • A box of toys stored in the headteacher's room for such occasions will keep children happily occupied whilst the head and parents talk.
  • Sarima has proposed once or twice that her younger sisters could and would happily occupy my energies at nighttime.
(13) sparsely, densely
Kolokacji: 2
(14) jointly, respectively, singly
Kolokacji: 3
(15) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2

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