Definitions for: Occupancy

[n] the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal"
[n] an act of being a tenant or occupant

Webster (1913) Definition: Oc"cu*pan*cy, n. [See Occupant.]
The act of taking or holding possession; possession;
occupation.

Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by
taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a
thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it.
--Blackstone. Kent.

Synonyms: moving in, occupation, taking possession, tenancy

See Also: abidance, acquiring, getting, habitation, inhabitancy, inhabitation, preoccupancy, preoccupation, residence, residency

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