What is "occupancy"

Usage examples of "occupancy".

The tree was hollow to an extent of about fifty feet in diameter, and from its flat, hard floor I judged that it had often been used to domicile others before our occupancy.

Young couples would purchase that property, they would take up occupancy, they would quarrel, the quarreling would escalate to shouting and table-pounding, they would anathematize each other, and, presto, they would move out, not together but separately.

These figures are for arable land and do not include the general erosion and degradation of lands all over the earth from human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, fire, and other injudicious human occupancy.

Shortly after the first world war, it sustained, by a narrow margin, a rent control law for the District of Columbia, which not merely limited the rents which might be charged but which also gave the existing tenants the right to continue in occupancy of their dwellings at their own option, provided they paid rent and performed other stipulated conditions.

Upon receiving their license to the planet Pring, the Pila undertook their occupancy with more than perfunctory attention to the minimal-impact provisions of their contract.

And the private infra-red cameras installed by shopping precincts, business developments and public buildings that have to monitor occupancy to comply with fire regulations can be downloaded into a number of West End video suites, where the tapes are collated within a digitalised computer system and stored as back-up copies.

But somebody several sizes larger, and much smellier, had taken over occupancy since the battle on the high seas.

It was not entirely a joyous occasion because de Marbot and Behn quarreled just before they were to take occupancy.

Whatever the occupancy limit was, the group exceeded it, and Rick found himself pressed up against Bela, the taller-six foot eight or so, he estimated-and brawnier of the two amazons from Praxis.

The odor rises as the rubbing goes on, a single churchlike odor of incense, ungrounded by candle-wax or human occupancy, meant for Heaven, a Fume rising in Transmutation She is shorn of all hair, from head to Crux.

Transplant is only temporary occupancy, however, and doesn’t involve full dislodgement of the original mind.

The building had been constructed for summer occupancy, and the partitions inside were of a composition board.

I'm always in the top ten on the ratio of gross profit to gross sales, percentage occupancy, personnel turnover.

The molecular or neurological cause of schizophrenia-which was once responsible for one out of ten hospital-bed occupancies in the United States-is still unknown.

Brambell walked along the row of shabby brownstones, now subdivided into Single Room Occupancies and tiny apartments.