Something that's occupied is being used or is unavailable. If the sign on the restroom door says occupied, it means there's someone in there and you're just going to have to wait.
Adjective S.
having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"
Adjective S.
resided in; having tenants; "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"
Adjective
held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"
Adjective
seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied countries of Europe"
imp. & p. p.
of Occupy
Usage Examples
To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
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Other Usage ExamplesHunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
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