deoccupy

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verb

To remove an occupation from (a place).

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:deoccupy.”

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Meanings

verbdeoccupy (third-person singular simple present deoccupies, present participle deoccupying, simple past and past participle deoccupied)

present singular third person deoccupies · participle present deoccupying · participle past deoccupied · past deoccupied · alternative de-occupy

  1. To remove an occupation from (a place).

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:deoccupy.

    1 more example

    Estonia and Latvia also had more radical nationalist groups, known as Citizens Congresses, which advocated “deoccupying” the region by sending Russian migrants and their families back to Russia. Support for the Soviet regime was[…]

    2021 June 22, Zsuzsa Csergő, Daina S. Eglitis, Paula M. Pickering, Central and East European Politics: Changes and Challenges, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 403

Origin

From de- + occupy.

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Translations

French désoccuper
  • désoccuperto remove an occupation from (a place) — see also liberate
Russian деоккупи́ровать
  • деоккупи́ровать (deokkupírovatʹ)to remove an occupation from (a place) — see also liberate
Ukrainian деокупува́ти
  • деокупува́ти (deokupuváty)to remove an occupation from (a place) — see also liberate
Cite this entry
APA

deoccupy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deoccupy

MLA

“deoccupy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deoccupy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deoccupy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deoccupy.

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