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occupancy|ˈɒkjʊpənsɪ|
[as prec.: see -ancy.]
1. a. The condition of being an occupant; the fact of occupying; the act of taking, or fact of holding, actual possession, esp. of land (spec. in Law, the taking possession of something not belonging to any one, as constituting a title to it); actual holding of or residence in a place; = occupation 1, 2.
1596Bacon Use of Law, Property in Land i, An estate for another man's life by occupancy, may at this time be gotten by entry. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parlt. i. (ed. 2) 100 A thing which in its owne nature is not capable of an Occupancy, nor seisible by any. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xvi. 258 Occupancy is the taking possession of those things, which before belonged to nobody. This..is the true ground and foundation of all property. 1774Jefferson Autobiog. App., Wks. 1859 I. 140 Each individual of the Society may appropriate to himself such lands as he finds vacant, and occupancy will give him title. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 39 The occupancy of the English throne..by the line of Hanover. 1884Law Rep. 27 Chanc. Div. 633 That..he should take a larger house for their joint occupancy.
attrib.188319th Cent. Sept. 435 The rent payable by an occupancy tenant. Ibid. 436 Ryots..entitled to occupancy rights. 1883Manch. Exam. 7 Nov. 5/3 The innovation of an occupancy franchise for the counties.
b. concr. A place occupied.
1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. v. IV. 562 note, The Saxon ‘Camp’ or Occupancy.
2. The fact of occupying or taking up (space).
1833N. Arnott Physics (ed. 5) II. 3 Such expansion or occupancy of space by a small quantity of matter. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. II. iii. xlii. 439 The first..tend, by the mere occupancy of space, to exclude other species.
3. a. The state of being occupied or busy; = occupation 4.
1826New Monthly Mag. XVI. 127 A train of reflections..which his former state of professional occupancy had tended to exclude. 1843J. Clason Serm. xvii. 295 We see heaven represented as a place of busy occupancy.
b. Teleph. The proportion of the time during which a circuit or device is handling calls.
1933Post Office Electr. Engineers' Jrnl. XXVI. 269 (caption) Probabilities P for a delay exceeding t holding times when there are n switches with occupancy a. 1960R. Syski Introd. Congestion Theory Teleph. Syst. i. 10 The traffic carried (or handled) refers to the changing patterns of occupancy conditions in the group. Ibid. vi. 365 The limit in (4.6) exists provided the traffic intensity (‘occupancy’)..is less than unity.
c. The proportion of accommodation occupied or used.
1974Economist 7 Sept. 51 The ‘France’ has had a 77 per cent occupancy rate on the North Atlantic run and a 91 per cent rate on winter cruises. 1975Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 9/6 If airlines did not overbook, planes would go out 40 per cent. full instead of the 70 per cent. occupancy needed to give a profit. 1977Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 10/7 Hotels in large towns outside London experienced a similar increased occupancy this year. 1977Time 19 Dec. 61/3 The 27,400-acre complex..sports three Disney hotels, with an occupancy rate of about 97%. |