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a1626 F. Bacon Learned Reading Statute of Uses (1642) 54 An Estate tayle cannot be reoccupied out of a Fee-simple being a new Estate, and not like a particular Estate, for life or yeares, which are but portions of the absolute Fee.

1793 Times 10 June 2/4 The Dutch troops..returned the next day to re-occupy that post.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 182 He reoccupied and refortified such of those posts as promoted his vengeful designs.

1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. viii. i. 177 The former prince..now returned to re-occupy his old possessions.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 203 A sufficient interval of time had..elapsed to allow the water to re-occupy the space.

1903 Science 12 June 948/1 The destruction of the marks at Chujuj, situated in the center of a polygon, made it necessary to reoccupy the four surrounding stations.

1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 132/3 The chairs in a circle around him were often reoccupied three or four times in an evening as visitors came and went.

2001 Navy News Sept. 4/2 Allowing the..Sierra Leone Army..to re-occupy large parts of previously rebel-held territory.

1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) II. viii. 29 They might adorn her grandmamma's reoccupied apartment.

1913 Times 23 July 8/1 The Powers will not take any forcible measures to dispossess the Turkish Government of the reoccupied city.

2002 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 31 109/2 He restated Israel's refusal to withdraw from the reoccupied areas A until the PA had cracked down on militants.