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occupancy

[ok-yuh-puhn-see] / ˈɒk jə pən si /


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Hotel occupancy was down three percent in the quarter to end-June, TUI said, an improvement from the six percent fall seen in the previous six months.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

The billboard’s occupancy along the Sunset Strip is expected to end Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

The city of Newark has been pressing for The GEO Group to permit a fire inspection and obtain a certificate of occupancy for the sprawling private jail.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

"It is to ensure that viable tourism businesses are not penalised by an occupancy requirement that many simply cannot achieve."

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

It was in this manner that I discovered a room for immediate occupancy, in a house on a quiet street, the listing said, for eight dollars per week.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Middle East hotel occupancies initially rose due to evacuations but are now weak; rising oil prices pose a broader risk to air travel.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

She said much of the available accommodation is in "houses of multiple occupancies with shared amenities", but "this position is reflected nationally".

From BBC Jun. 13, 2025

And self-storage is popular, with record occupancies of 94.5 percent last year.

From Washington Post Feb. 15, 2022

Spaces with occupancies of less than 500 would be required to cut those attendance levels by 50 percent.

From New York Times Mar. 12, 2020

The notable scarcity of roofing timbers in the ruins can probably be explained by the hypothesis of successive occupancies and subsequent or repeated use of material difficult to obtain.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff




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