Definitions for occupied
oc·cu·pied

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?

1. 

   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. Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi:

   These battles are not easy, but the day will come, God willing, when all Aleppo - its rural areas and the occupied part of the city - will return to state authority.

2. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius:

   We remain hopeful for clemency but we are extremely pre-occupied by this decision and this death threat which, if carried out, would obviously have consequences for the relationship between this country and France.

3. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

4. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

   They occupied a railway station, they refused to be fingerprinted, they did not cooperate and they refused to enter facilities where they could receive care, such as food, water, shelter or medical treatment. They have rebelled against Hungarian law.

5. Dani Dayan:

   Israel doesn't see Judea and Samaria as occupied territories.

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