OCCUPY Copy link • OCCUPYTo engage, occupare, occupatum tenere (to engage one’s whole thoughts or attention): detinere (to keep close to a thing, to fix): curae est mihi aliquid, consulo alicui rei (engages my care or attention): to occupy one in various ways, distinere; distringere (to distract): to occupy one’s self in anything, occupari in aliqua re or aliqua re; versari in re or circa aliquid (to give one’s self up completely to a thing): se ponere in re (to lay one’s self out upon a thing): aliquid tractare (to handle): agere (to be chiefly concerned in): dare se rei (to devote one’s self to; to be busily occupied in anything): urgere aliquid (e.g., studia): to occupy one’s self wholly, or exclusively in anything, se totum collocare in re: my mind is entirely occupied with this one contemplation, totus animus in hac una contemplatione derixus est: to be occupied in a thing, occupatum esse in re; intentum esse alicui rei; in manibus est mihi aliquid; vigere in re (e.g., in rerum cognitione, Vid: Cic., Ecl. p. 56). To take or have possession, habere; tenere; possidere: to occupy with troops, locum obsidere, insidere, occupare (the latter including the idea that one anticipates another in taking the place): locum praesidio firmare, munire; praesidium ponere, collocare, constituere in loco (to garrison a place which one already possesses): to occupy a place firmly with troops, valido occupare praesidio: a place PROP. occupied (with troops), locus tutus (opposed to intutus): to keep a place occupied (with troops), locum praesidio tenere (to hold with a garrison): locum asservare (to keep).