occupancy

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 2.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.
2. noun The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or premises.

   They had a five-year occupancy on the house.

3. noun The specific use to which something occupied is put.

   This building is for residential occupancy.

4. noun A mode of acquiring title to a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it with an intent of acquiring such title.

   The federal government's occupancy of immigration law precludes state action.

5. noun The expected frequency of a state.

Similar words

occupation tenancy taking possession occupier occupy habitation employment occupational residential hire

Often followed by

of and by rate in rates is rights or

Word family

occupancies occupant occupants occupation occupational occupations occupied occupier occupiers occupies