Definitions for occupied
oc·cu·pied

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

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(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. occupiedadjective

   reserved, engaged

2. occupiedadjective

   busy, unavailable

3. occupiedadjective

   subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence

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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.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

How to pronounce occupied?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. Herodotus:

   Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

2. Bhartrihari:

   Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior; the rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt up by the hot season.

3. Avner Gvaryahu:

   It's really about trying to silence and cover up what's been going on in the occupied territories for 51 years.

4. Michael Stevens:

   The property had not been subject of work for some years and had already been earmarked for renovation in line with out responsibility to maintain the condition of the occupied royal palaces estate, outdated infrastructure was replaced to guarantee the long term future of the property.

5. Michael Taylor:

   Granted, air travel isn't perfect, planes remain pretty packed with over 80% load factors. That means that the middle seat is more likely to be occupied -- that empty middle seat used to be free real estate for passengers -- and overhead bin space issues are trending upward again.

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