Definitions for occupied
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Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. occupied(adj)

   held or filled or in use

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

2. occupied(adj)

   seized and controlled as by military invasion

   "the occupied countries of Europe"

3. occupied, tenanted(adj)

   resided in; having tenants

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

4. engaged, occupied(adj)

   having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

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

Wiktionary(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. occupied(Adjective)

   reserved, engaged

2. occupied(Adjective)

   busy, unavailable

3. occupied(Adjective)

   subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

How to pronounce occupied?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Arnold Glasow:

   n idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

2. Dominik Stillhart:

   In addition to the crises widely covered in 2015, next year on my radar will be Burundi (and the Great Lakes area), Israel and the Occupied Territories and Afghanistan, having worked in Afghanistan for 30 years, we see that the conflict is far from over and civilians continue to pay a heavy price: 2015 was one of the deadliest years since 2001. A deteriorating security situation forces people to leave their homes and seek refuge in neighbouring countries or try dangerous routes to Europe.

3. C. C. Colton:

   How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

4. Myles Caggins:

   Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces, conducting a routine anti-ISIS security patrol near Tal Al-Zahab, Syria, encountered a checkpoint occupied by pro-Syrian regime forces. After receiving safe passage from the pro-regime forces, the patrol came under small arms fire from individuals in the vicinity of the checkpoint. Coalition troops returned fire in self-defense.

5. Oskar Schindler:

   The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

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