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

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

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   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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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. Emily Ferris:

   Then it meant that it was tricky to tow the tanks back to Russia for repairs, because they were far away, and so a lot of them were abandoned. Lots of their equipment started breaking because the tanks can only take so much moving around, and, of course, you have the very well-documented resistance from local Ukrainians, who didn't take too well to being occupied.

3. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi:

   The area we have liberated so far is more than half of what was occupied by Daesh before, we intend this year to make it the final year and the last year for the existence of Daesh in Iraq.

4. Charles Sumner:

   The island of San Domingo, situated in tropical waters, and occupied by another race, of another color, never can become a permanent possession of the United States. You may seize it by force of arms or by diplomacy, where a naval squadron does more than the minister, but the enforced jurisdiction cannot endure. Already by a higher statute is that island set apart to the colored race... I protest against this legislation as another stage in a drama of blood. I protest against it in the name down, in the name of peace imperiled, and in the name of the African race, whose first effort at independence is rudely assailed.

5. David Doniger:

   If he has any grasp of scientific and legal reality, he would realize that it's a fool's errand to reverse the endangerment determination, 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.

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