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occupance|ˈɒkjʊpəns|
[f. occupant: see -ance.]
= next, 1; spec. in Geogr., the inhabiting and modification of an area by man.
1814Scott Diary 4 Aug. in Lockhart, The chief stress is laid upon occupance. 1880Mrs. Fetherstonhaugh Alan Dering II. x. 138 Lady Ruthven herself was in occupance of the pretty mansion. 1932Sci. Monthly XXXV. 266/1 France..is strikingly an aggregation of ‘pays’, each of which has its distinctive character stamped upon every aspect of the natural environment and upon every form of human occupance thereof. 1934Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geogr. XXIV. 81 Occupance is..defined as the process of occupying or living in an area, and the transformations of the initial landscape which result. Ibid., Occupance refers not only to..economic activities but also to other activities..such as the construction of buildings, roads, and so on. The word includes also the results as well as the process of living in an area. 1974F. Emery Oxfordsh. Landscape i. 35 People who could cultivate the land with digging-sticks in order to grow cereals, covering the ground..with a ‘slash-and-burn’ or shifting occupance of the kind we still meet today in certain forest environments. |