Definitions for occupied
oc·cu·pied

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 5 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. occupiedadjective

   reserved, engaged

2. occupiedadjective

   busy, unavailable

3. occupiedadjective

   subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

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How to pronounce occupied?

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   Australian

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How to say occupied in sign language?

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. Steve Womack:

   The timing is never right for it, it's either a brand new administration or an upcoming election, or another transformational piece of legislation that has occupied our time.

2. Philip Hammond:

   Ukrainians can't beat the Russian army, that's not a practical proposition. There has to be a political solution, 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.

3. Mandy Joyce:

   We discovered remarkable towers where every surface was occupied by some type of life, this is an amazing natural laboratory to document incredible organisms and better understand how they survive in extremely challenging environments.

4. Kevin Cheung:

   Their spirits are occupied by the movement, he's worried about how they will cope in going back to normal life - if there's anything we can call normal.

5. Ismail Haniya:

   I say to our people everywhere, be prepared for a human deluge on all of the borders of Palestine, inside the occupied land and outside the occupied land, i say to the (Israeli occupiers) your time is gone.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=occupied
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Occupied
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=occupied