deoccupy

English

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Etymology

de- + occupy

Verb

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

  1. To remove an occupation from (a place).
    • 2021 June 22, Zsuzsa Csergő, Daina S. Eglitis, Paula M. Pickering, Central and East European Politics: Changes and Challenges, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 403:
      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 []
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:deoccupy.

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