[syn: engaged, occupied]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
occupied \occupied\ adj.
1. Engaged; in use; being used by a person and not free for
use by someone else; as, the wc is occupied. Opposite of
free, available, and unoccupied.
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2. Inhabited, lived-in, tenanted; having residents; -- of
dwelling units. [Narrower terms: owner-occupied] WordNet
1.5]
3. Overrun, taken over; -- of countries or territories; as,
occupied France. Opposite of unoccupied.
[WordNet 1.5]
4. Busy; actively or fully engaged in some activity; -- of
people. Opposite of idle.
Syn: employed, engaged.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Occupied; p. pr. & vb.
n. Occupying.] [OE. occupien, F. occuper, fr.L. occupare;
ob (see Ob-) + a word akin to capere to take. See
Capacious.]
1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to
possess.
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Woe occupieth the fine [end] of our gladness.
--Chaucer.
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The better apartments were already occupied. --W.
Irving.
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2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room
or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five
acres of ground. --Sir J. Herschel.
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3. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the
service of; to employ; to busy.
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An archbishop may have cause to occupy more
chaplains than six. --Eng. Statute
(Hen. VIII. )
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They occupied themselves about the Sabbath. --2
Macc. viii.
27.
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4. To do business in; to busy one's self with. [Obs.]
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All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were
in thee to occupy the merchandise. --Ezek. xxvii.
9.
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Not able to occupy their old crafts. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
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5. To use; to expend; to make use of. [Obs.]
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All the gold that was occupied for the work. --Ex.
xxxviii. 24.
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They occupy not money themselves. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
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6. To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] --Nares.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
occupied
adj 1: held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well
occupied"; "the wc is occupied" [ant: unoccupied]
2: seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied
countries of Europe" [ant: unoccupied]
3: resided in; having tenants; "not all the occupied (or
tenanted) apartments were well kept up" [syn: occupied,
tenanted]
4: having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps
herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply
engaged in conversation" [syn: engaged, occupied]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "occupied":
absorbed, absorbed in, abstracted, at it, at work, buried in,
buried in thought, busy, caught up in, colonized, contemplating,
contemplative, devoted, devoted to, empeopled, employed, engaged,
engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in, engrossed in thought,
full of business, hard at it, hard at work, immersed in,
immersed in thought, in harness, inhabited, intent, intent on,
introspective, involved, lost in, lost in thought, meditating,
meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, obsessed, on duty,
on the go, on the hop, on the job, on the jump, on the move,
on the run, peopled, populated, populous, preoccupied, rapt,
settled, single-minded, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up,
taken up with, tenanted, tied up, totally absorbed, working,
wrapped in, wrapped in thought, wrapped up in