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oc·cu·pied

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. occupiedadjective

    held or filled or in use

    "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"

  2. occupiedadjective

    seized and controlled as by military invasion

    "the occupied countries of Europe"

  3. occupied, tenantedadjective

    resided in; having tenants

    "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"

  4. engaged, occupiedadjective

    having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

    "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"

Wiktionary

  1. occupiedadjective

    reserved, engaged

  2. occupiedadjective

    busy, unavailable

  3. occupiedadjective

    subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence

Wikipedia

  1. Occupied

    Occupied (Norwegian: Okkupert) is a Norwegian political thriller TV series that premiered on TV2 on 5 October 2015. Based on an original idea by Jo Nesbø, the series is co-created with Karianne Lund and Erik Skjoldbjærg. Season 2 premiered on 10 October 2017. The third and final season started airing in Scandinavia on 5 December 2019, and was released in many countries via Netflix on 31 December 2019. With a budget of 90 million kr (US$11 million), the series is the most expensive Norwegian production to date and has been sold to the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Serbia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, and Canada. It is also streamed by Netflix in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Ireland, the United Kingdom, India, Singapore, Canada, Belgium, Italy, South Africa and the Netherlands.The series depicts a fictional near future in which, due to catastrophic environmental events, Norway's Prime Minister has stopped the country's oil and gas production. Russia, with support from the European Union, occupies Norway to restore its oil and gas production, in response to a Europe-wide energy crisis.

ChatGPT

  1. occupied

    Occupied generally refers to a state or condition where someone or something is busy, engaged or being used. It also refers to a space or premises being inhabited by a person or an entity. It can additionally refer to a territory or a country being controlled or ruled by a foreign power.

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'occupied' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3637

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of occupied in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of occupied in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of occupied in a Sentence

  1. Atta Mohammad Noor:

    The Tajiks and former mujahideen MPs did not vote because they think all security sectors are occupied by Pashtuns and power must be shared.

  2. Feltham:

    Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

  3. David Doniger:

    This could be a way for him to keep the right-wing fringe groups occupied and also accomplish the goal of further confusing the public debate.

  4. Philip Hammond:

    This man (Putin) has sent troops across an international border and occupied another country's territory in the 21st century acting like some mid-20th century tyrant. Civilized nations do not behave like that.

  5. Steffen Mau:

    Three quarters of the lead positions in east Germany are occupied by people with a west German background.

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