occupy
occupy (ŏkʹyə-pī) verb, transitive
occupied, occupying, occupies
1. To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours.
2. To dwell or reside in.
3. To hold or fill (an office or a position).
4. To seize possession of and maintain control over by or as if by conquest.
5. To engage, employ, or busy (oneself): occupied himself with sculpting.
[Middle English occupien, alteration of Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre, to seize : ob-, intensive pref.. See ob- + capere, to take.]
ocʹcupier noun