OCCUPANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occupancy mean? 

• OCCUPANCY (noun)
  The noun OCCUPANCY has 2 senses:

1. an act of being a tenant or occupant

2. the act of occupying or taking possession of a building

  Familiarity information: OCCUPANCY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCUPANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act of being a tenant or occupant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

occupancy; tenancy

Hypernyms ("occupancy" is a kind of...):

abidance; residence; residency (the act of dwelling in a place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupancy"):

habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation (the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men))

Derivation:

occupant (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

occupy (live (in a certain place))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of occupying or taking possession of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

moving in; occupancy; occupation

Context example:

occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal

Hypernyms ("occupancy" is a kind of...):

acquiring; getting (the act of acquiring something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupancy"):

preoccupancy; preoccupation (the act of taking occupancy before someone else does)

Derivation:

occupant (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

 Context examples 

However, a bimodal regulation of PLC d1 activity has been observed depending on Ca++ levels and occupancy of the guanine nucleotide binding site of Gah.

(Phospholipid Associated Cell Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It was in the old days of the Russian occupancy of Alaska, when the nineteenth century had run but half its course, that Negore fled after his fleeing tribe and came upon it this summer night by the head waters of the Pee-lat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)