See Also: bed occupancy(medicine)
occupancy(dictionary)
occupancy(dictionary)
Certificate of Occupancy(money)
Occupancy Agreement(money)
Occupancy Rate(money)
Occupancy rate(tourism)

occupancy (iou)



occupancy noun. L16.
[from OCCUPANT.: see -ANCY.]
The act, condition, or fact of occupying something or of being occupied; actual possession or residence, esp. of a dwelling or land; spec. in Law, the action of taking possession of something having no owner, as constituting a title to it. (Foll. by of.) L16.
open occupancy: see OPEN adjective.
D. Wordsworth The first signs of occupancy and labour we had noticed..were felled trees. C. C. Harrison Country cottage fitted up for summer occupancy.
a. The state of being occupied or busy. E19.
b. The proportion of accommodation occupied or used; the extent to which accommodation is occupied. E19.
Debonair (India) Hoteliers..grumble about low occupancy rates.
c. Telephony. The proportion of the time during which a circuit or device is handling calls. M20.
occupance noun = OCCUPANCY 1; Geography the inhabiting and modification of an area by humans: E19.