occultism, n. cabalism, mysticism, esotericism, eso-terism, esotery, hermeticism, hermetics; supernaturalism, transcendentalism; theosophy; spiritualism, medi-umism; magic, black magic, sorcery, witchcraft, diabolism.
occupancy, n. 1. tenancy, tenure, residence, residency, residing, abiding, living, dwelling, Law. commorancy, occupation, occupying; settlement, settling, inhabitance, inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation, habitancy, moving in; domiciliation, lodging, lodgment, billeting, quartering, locating; taking up residence, taking up one's abode, making one's home, establishing oneself, Inf. hanging up one's hat.
2. possession, possessorship, proprietorship, ownership; retention, holding.
occupant, n. 1. tenant, renter, lessee, leaseholder; resident, permanent resident, resider, residencer, residentiary; inhabitant, Archaic, inhabiter, habitant, dweller, denizen, householder, addressee, occupier; indweller, incumbent, inmate; lodger, boarder, roomer, paying guest, Sl. crasher.
2. settler, homesteader, colonist, squatter, cottager, cottier, Scot. cotter; villager, townsman, burgher, burgess, oppidan, citizen.
occupation, n. 1. business, employment, employ, job, work, living, livelihood; profession, career, life-work, vocation, calling; mdtier, trade, craft, skill; field, line, province, area, walk of life, station, situation, post, position; appointment, berth, billet, assignment, commission, charge, mission, duty, task, undertaking; stint, errand, chore, drudgery.
2. activity, enterprise, pursuit, avocation, hobby, Sl. bag, Sl. thing; pastime, amusement, diversion, preoccupation.
3. tenancy, residency, habitation, possession, occupancy. See - occupancy (def. 1).
4. foreign rule, colonial rule, imperial rule; (all of foreign territory) seizure, takeover, conquest, overthrow, defeat; possession, control, subjection, subordination, subjugation, oppression, bondage.
occupational, adj. professional, vocational, career, workday, workaday, industrial; official, business,
occupy, v. 1. fill, fill up, permeate, pervade, cover, take up.
2. engage, employ, use, busy; interest, beguile, arrest, absorb, engross, preoccupy, concern, be on one's mind, absorb one's thoughts; entertain, divert, amuse; hold, secure, tie up, tie down, take up one's time, monopolize.
3. (all of military invasions) capture, seize, take by force, take over, overthrow, conquer, defeat; rule, control, dominate, subjugate, subject, oppress, hold in thrall, hold in bondage.
4. dwell in, reside, inhabit, tenant, live in; establish oneself, move into, take up residence, take up one's abode, settle, settle down, locate, ensconce, make one's home, Inf. hang up one's hat.
occur, v. 1. happen, take place, transpire, come to pass, come about, come, Archaic, hap, Inf. come off, befall, supervene, betide, chance, Archaic, bechance, Archaic, arrive; result, ensue, follow, eventuate, turn out.
2. intervene, come up, present itself, show itself, show up, turn up, be found; arise, spring up, come into being, issue, proceed, come forth, emerge; appear, materialize, become manifest, become visible.