Synonyms for occupied
oc·cu·pied

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1. occupied

   Industrious signifies zealously or habitually applying oneself to any work or business. Busy applies to an activity which may be temporary, industrious to a habit of life. We say a man is busy just now; that is, occupied at the moment with something that takes his full attention. It would be ridiculous or satirical to say, he is industrious just now. But busy can be used in the sense of industrious, as when we say he is a busy man. Diligent indicates also a disposition, which is ordinarily habitual, and suggests more of heartiness and volition than industrious. We say one is a diligent, rather than an industrious, reader of the Bible. In the use of the nouns, we speak of plodding industry, but not of plodding diligence. Compare ACTIVE; INDUSTRY.

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   Synonyms:
   active, assiduous, busy, diligent, employed, engaged, industrious, sedulous

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1. occupiedadjective

   held or filled or in use

   "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"

   Synonyms:
   tenanted, engaged

   Antonyms:
   spare, idle, uninhabited, relinquished, free, unoccupied

2. occupiedadjective

   seized and controlled as by military invasion

   "the occupied countries of Europe"

   Synonyms:
   tenanted, engaged

   Antonyms:
   uninhabited, idle, unoccupied, relinquished, spare, free

3. occupied, tenantedadjective

   resided in; having tenants

   "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"

   Synonyms:
   tenanted, engaged

   Antonyms:
   spare, relinquished, uninhabited, free, unoccupied, idle

4. engaged, occupiedadjective

   having ones attention or mind or energy engaged

   "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"

   Synonyms:
   in use(p), intermeshed, set-aside(p), engaged, booked, meshed, busy, tenanted

   Antonyms:
   spare, free, relinquished, idle, unoccupied, uninhabited

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1. List of paraphrases for "occupied":

   busy, occupying, occupation, golan, filled, held, israeli-occupied, employed, encumbered, inhabited

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How to use occupied in a sentence?

1. Oksana Pokalchuk:

   If you don't live in a country occupied by invaders that are tearing it to pieces, you probably don't understand what it's like to condemn an army of defenders.

2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.

3. 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.

4. Karim Sadr:

   I have counted about 800 homesteads in this area and there are probably more, but it is difficult to say how many people occupied the city at any time, since not all the homesteads would have been occupied concurrently and some may have contained many more people than others, my guess is that the city never had more than 10,000 people at any one time, but that is just an educated guess.

5. Washington County:

   In the flash flooding two occupied vehicles were hit by a large wall of water and debris at the Canyon Street Maxwell Crossing and were carried into the flood.