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occupied adjective (TAKEN CONTROL OF) [ not gradable ] (of a country, city, or other place) filled with or run by people, esp. an army, who have moved in and taken control or possession: occupied territories.
Examples of occupy in a Sentence. They have occupied the apartment for three years. She occupies the house that her grandfather built 50 years ago. They own another house that they occupy only three months out of the year. They occupy the room next to ours.
2. in use and so not available for anyone else. At the pub, his usual seat was occupied. Every table in the dining room was occupied. That seat is occupied. 3. politics. under the control of an occupying military force. in the occupied territory. Collins English Dictionary.
Definition of occupied adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Something that's occupied is being used or is unavailable. If the sign on the restroom door says occupied, it means there's someone in there and you're just going to have to wait.
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employed or engaged, as one’s attention, energy, etc.; busy: He is often bored at home, not receiving much attention or affection from his occupied parents. (of a position, office, etc.) held: The amount of the salary markup for working under extraordinary conditions depends on the occupied position.
1. in use, taken, full, engaged, unavailable three beds, two of which were occupied. 2. inhabited, peopled, lived-in, settled, tenanted The house was occupied by successive generations of farmers. inhabited empty, deserted, vacant, uninhabited, unoccupied, untenanted, tenantless.
Synonyms for OCCUPIED: engaged, busy, employed, diligent, preoccupied, working, active, immersed; Antonyms of OCCUPIED: unoccupied, unemployed, inactive, idle, free, dormant, quiescent, asleep.
From Longman Business Dictionary occupy oc‧cu‧py / ˈɒkjəpaɪˈɑːk-/ verb (past tense and past participle occupied) 1 [transitive] to use a particular building to live or work in a large computer company that occupies a building of some 60,000 sq ft — occupier noun [countable] a tax payable by the occupier of the property 2 ...
