What is the definition of occupy?

Answer 1

tr.v., -pied, -py·ing, -pies. # To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours. # To dwell or reside in. # To hold or fill (an office or position). # To seize possession of and maintain control over by or as if by conquest. # To engage or employ the attention or concentration of: occupied the children with coloring books.
to have, hold, or take as a separate space; possess, reside in or on, or claim:

Example The orchard occupies half the farm.