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# occupent — French to English

How French *occupent* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: occupent (25 193). By style: everyday 20 · literary 1 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 932 · legal and administrative 350 · UN documents 23 887.

## positions

Used about 2 102 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 97 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 · UN documents ≈ 1 991).

- Le Japon et les États-Unis **occupent** déjà une position de force sur ces marchés.
  Japan and the USA already have strong **positions** in these markets.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1698552)

- Les membres de l'ACD **occupent** des fonctions de direction dans le secteur du fret aérien.
  The members of ACD act in managerial **positions** in the air freight sector.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1416798)

- Le nombre de femmes qui **occupent** des positions de cadre dans le Parti est resté stable depuis le début des années 80.
  The number of women in the leadership **positions** of the Party has been pretty stable since the early 1980 &apos; s.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10407810)

- Aujourd’hui, certains membres de cette Commission **occupent** des postes très importants dans les gouvernements et dans les parlements nationaux.
  Some members of this Commission today hold top **positions** in their national governments and parliaments.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 609893)

- les informations concernant des infractions commises par les entités, ou par les personnes qui **occupent** un poste de direction;
  information relating to breaches by entities, or by the persons fulfilling management **positions**;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4296319)

## posts

Used about 1 590 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 97 · UN documents ≈ 1 493).

- Bien que la plupart des enseignantes universitaires soient des femmes (plus de 50%), elles **occupent** généralement des postes moins élevés.
  Although the majority of lecturers are women (over 50%), they tend to hold less senior **posts**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1084396)

- La situation est moins satisfaisante dans le secteur privé où les femmes **occupent** seulement 10 % de ces postes.
  The situation was less satisfactory in the private sector, where women occupied only 10 per cent of such **posts**.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 7865568)

- Il ne s'agit pas non plus de créer de nouveaux postes et de faire en sorte que des fonctionnaires des pays candidats à l'adhésion les **occupent**.
  Nor is it a question of creating new **posts** and manning them with officials from applicant countries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 193045)

- Une nette tendance à la hausse se dessine également pour les femmes qui **occupent** des postes de chefs de missions dans le service diplomatique et consulaire.
  Also in the case of women - heads of diplomatic and consular **posts**, a clear upward tendency can be observed.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27718760)

- Bien que les femmes représentent plus de 50% des étudiants européens, elles n'**occupent** que 15% des postes à responsabilités dans les sciences et la recherche.
  Although women make up more than 50% of EU students, they hold only 15% of senior academic **posts** in science and research.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1084490)

## occupy

Used about 1 161 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 39 · legal and administrative ≈ 124 · UN documents ≈ 995). Meaning: [occupy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/occupy/).

- Les livres **occupent** la plus grande partie de sa chambre.
  Books **occupy** most of his room.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and mervert1 · checked, community translation · [\#322048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/322048) [\#135224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135224))

- --J'ai consulté sur cette question plusieurs ecclésiastiques travaillant en Notre-Seigneur qui s'**occupent** dans l'exercice de la vie cléricale et qui font un fruit admirable.
  “I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our Lord, who **occupy** themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and who bear wonderful fruit.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11522)

- C'est pourquoi les droits de l'homme **occupent** une place spéciale dans le travail de l'Union et de notre Parlement.
  This is why human rights **occupy** a special place in the work of the Union and of our Parliament.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1462713)

- n’**occupent** pas les postes réservés aux membres d’équipage de cabine;
  do not **occupy** required cabin crew assigned stations;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2708393)

- Enfin, elles **occupent** 39 % des postes de coordonnateur résident, représentant résident ou équivalent.
  At the level of resident coordinator or resident representative, women **occupy** 39 per cent of positions.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29571741)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Deux infirmières s'**occupent** d'elle.
  Two nurses are attending her.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#20989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20989) [\#11985061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11985061))

- Les terres **occupent** la plus petite partie de la surface de la Terre.
  Land occupies the minor portion of the earth's surface.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#325400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325400) [\#1067563](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1067563))

- J'imagine que d'autres choses t'**occupent**.
  I would think you have other things to keep you busy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3730201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3730201) [\#4142394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4142394))

## Grammar

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