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occupation

noun as in control, possession

noun as in seizure, takeover

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It can project strength without some hypocritical and destructive occupation or invasion, or a half-baked “nation-building” disaster.

From Salon

With surprising speed, however, this country’s leaders came to spurn McKinley’s embrace of a colonial empire with its costly, complicated occupation of overseas territories.

From Salon

“Entire towns like Aurora, Colo., and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody’s ever seen before,” Trump said Tuesday.

As a result they applied for permission for a change of use to a five-bedroom house in multiple occupation.

From BBC

Hastily abandoned Russian encampments in the forests near the roads were choked with rubbish their soldiers had discarded over the weeks of occupation.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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