1. Activité.
2. Travail. Son occupation favorite.
3. Présence (de force). Occupation d'un pays.
4. Utilisation. Occupation des sols.
ETYM Cf. French activité, Late Lat. activitas.
1. Any specific activity or pursuit.
2. The state of being active
3. An organic process that takes place in the body
4. A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
5. The trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically
The act of inhabiting; SYN. inhabitation, habitation.
1. An act of being a tenant or occupant; SYN. tenancy.
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
4. The use to which a property is put
5. A building or part of a building intended to be occupied (as by a tenant)
ETYM Latin occupatio: cf.French occupation.
1. The principal professional activity in one's life; SYN. business, line of work, line.
2. The act of occupying or taking possession of a building; SYN. occupancy, taking possession.
3. Any activity that occupies a person's attention.
4. A body of people doing the same kind of work; SYN. vocation, occupational group.
5. The act of taking occupancy; SYN. occupying, moving in.
6. The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power; SYN. military control.