Illustration: Inside a university meeting room, a group of students have taken over the space and pushed heavy tables across the entrance. Several sit firmly behind the barricade with bedding and food supplies, prepared to remain.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

占せん拠きょ

senkyo

to occupy, to seize control of

Example sentences

兵士へいしたちが建物たてものを占拠せんきょした。
The soldiers occupied the building.
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反乱軍はんらんぐんは放送局ほうそうきょくを占拠せんきょした。
The rebels have captured the broadcasting station.
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デモ隊たいはウォール街がいを占拠せんきょした。
The protesters occupied Wall Street.
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Kanji in 占拠

占fortune-telling; diviningOnセンKunしめる・うらなう
拠foothold; based onOnキョ・コKunよる

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