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    3. 占拠

    占拠

    占せん拠きょ

    occupation

    KMT8News #21+1Noun, Participle, Verb, TransitiveMilitaryKanji Vocab13 strokes

    せんきょ

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    occupation, taking and maintaining exclusive control (of a location)

    Stroke 0 / 13

    Speed1.0x

    デモ隊たいが広ひろ場ばを占せん拠きょした。

    The demonstrators occupied the square.

    KMT6Politics & Law
    彼かれは会かい議ぎ室しつの最もっとも良よい席せきをいつも占せん拠きょしている。

    He always occupies the best seat in the meeting room.

    KMT7Daily LifeWork & Career
    敵てき軍ぐんは戦せん略りゃく的てきに重じゅう要ような拠きょ点てんを占せん拠きょし、優ゆう位いに立たった。

    The enemy forces occupied strategically important bases and gained an advantage.

    KMT8Military
    ゲリラ部ぶ隊たいは、政せい府ふ軍ぐんの補ほ給きゅう路ろを占せん拠きょすることで、戦せん況きょうを有ゆう利りに進すすめた。

    The guerrilla forces advanced the war situation favorably by occupying the government army's supply routes.

    KMT8MilitaryPolitics & Law
    不ふ法ほう占せん拠きょされた土と地ちの所しょ有ゆう権けんを巡めぐって、長なが年ねんにわたる法ほう廷てい闘とう争そうが続つづいている。

    A long-standing legal battle continues over the ownership of illegally occupied land.

    KMT9Politics & Lawlaw

    Kanji that make up this word

    占
    し.める・うらな.う…(4)
    fortune-telling・divining・forecasting・occupy・hold…(3)
    拠
    よ.る…(2)
    foothold・based on・follow・therefore
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