How to Use occupancy in a Sentence

occupancy

noun
  • Those two events on the same weekend puts the local hotel occupancy rate to 94%, the firm said.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Maui charges some of the highest hotel and resort rates and occupancies in Hawaii.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As has been the case in every new hospital built in San Diego over the past decade, Rady plans to make rooms single occupancy.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
  • But even if money is no object, low supply and high occupancy rates mean rentals are hard to find in the Cincinnati area.
    The Enquirer, 16 July 2023
  • In June, Chicago reported record-breaking hotel occupancy over the weekend the Eras Tour came to the city.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • While the resort won’t open until 2025, many of the private residences are now complete and ready for occupancy.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Be sure to stay up to date on the rent and occupancy levels and get second opinions on the stability of interest rates.
    Lee Kiser, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • This southern city has surpassed the capital, Taipei, to boast the highest overall hotel occupancy rate in Taiwan in the past two years.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • That churn was cutting into its occupancy rate, which dropped in the second quarter compared to the previous one.
    Time, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The oversupply of office space could place further financial strains on banks, as landlords are hurting due to the lack of tenants and a drop in occupancy rates.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • On the same day the results were provided, developers informed DNR that the site did have occupancy.
    Yash Roy, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2023
  • Rose Creek Village, a 60-unit project in Pacific Beach that will be all single-room occupancy, will get $4 million.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • On the other hand comes word office occupancy continues to climb.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • And ultimately, the size of those effects will depend on whether 1) occupancy rates go back up, and 2) interest rates come back down.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • Any increase in the transient occupancy tax, often called TOT, would have to be approved by Carlsbad voters.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Save for a drop during the first few months of the pandemic, Airbnb occupancy rates have largely stayed consistent, with the average rental occupied more than 40% of the time.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Metering will start when the occupancy loops in the highway reach a threshold for vehicle speed set by the engineer; the more that highway speeds decline, the longer the meter will make cars on the ramp wait for a green light.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Again, how long the red light stays on is determined mainly by the occupancy loops, which feed data to the metering station every 30 seconds.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Recently, however, some landlords in the area have been running move-in specials to keep occupancy rates up.
    Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The building had yet to open because fire officials had cited safety issues and declined to sign off on its occupancy, the people said.
    Michael Rothfeld, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Mexico’s industrial park occupancy hit a record high last year, and banks expect this trend to boost the economy in 2023.
    Carolina Gonzalez, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The building is 15 stories, with 14 levels of occupancy, Goldstein said.
    Celina Tebor, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Cons Six people would likely be a tight squeeze in this hot tub — its realistic occupancy is probably closed to four adults.
    Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • After a bruising couple of years with pandemic shutdowns, both bookings and occupancy rates are at all-time highs.
    Alex Wood, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Vilenchik said the building's certificate of occupancy to operate as a parking garage was filed in 1957.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But per Kastle Systems’ weekly office occupancy data, there was no Labor Day bump to speak of.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The website didn’t go into specific numbers, but high occupancy rates and high revenue potential were listed among the pluses for the Port City.
    Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The first group of Ritz-Carlton Villas, which are condominiums for sale in the development, is completed and soon will be ready for occupancy.
    Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2023
  • This was notably slicing the occupancy rate among WeWork's offices.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Plano collects a hotel occupancy tax from the properties.
    Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023

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