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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Occupied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Occupying}.] [OE. occupien, F. occuper, fr.L. occupare; ob (see {Ob-}) + a word akin to capere to take. See {Capacious}.]
1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
Woe occupieth the fine [end] of our gladness. --Chaucer.
The better apartments were already occupied. --W. Irving.
2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground. --Sir J. Herschel.
3. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six. --Eng. Statute (Hen. VIII. )
They occupied themselves about the Sabbath. --2 Macc. viii. 27.
4. To do business in; to busy one's self with. [Obs.]
All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise. --Ezek. xxvii. 9.
Not able to occupy their old crafts. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
5. To use; to expend; to make use of. [Obs.]
All the gold that was occupied for the work. --Ex. xxxviii. 24.
They occupy not money themselves. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
6. To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] --Nares.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
occupied \occupied\ adjective
1. Engaged; in use; being used by a person and not free for use by someone else; as, the wc is occupied. Opposite of {free}, {available}, and {unoccupied}. [WordNet 1.5]
2. Inhabited, lived-in, tenanted; having residents; -- of dwelling units. [Narrower terms: {owner-occupied}] WordNet 1.5]
3. Overrun, taken over; -- of countries or territories; as, occupied France. Opposite of {unoccupied}. [WordNet 1.5]
4. Busy; actively or fully engaged in some activity; -- of people. Opposite of {idle}.
Syn: employed, engaged. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
occupied
adjective
1: held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied" [ant: {unoccupied}]
2: seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied countries of Europe" [ant: {unoccupied}]
3: resided in; having tenants; "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up" [syn: {tenanted}]
4: having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation" [syn: {engaged}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
occupy
verb
1: be present in; be inside of [syn: {inhabit}]
2: keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" [syn: {busy}]
3: live (in a certain place) [syn: {reside}, {lodge in}]
4: occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container" [syn: {fill}]
5: be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant" [syn: {concern}, {interest}, {worry}]
6: as of time or space; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" [syn: {take}, {use up}]
7: march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" [syn: {invade}]
8: engage or engross wholly; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" [syn: {absorb}, {engross}, {engage}] [also: {occupied}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
occupied See {occupy}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "occupied": absorbed, absorbed in, abstracted, at it, at work, buried in, buried in thought, busy, caught up in, colonized, contemplating, contemplative, devoted, devoted to, empeopled, employed, engaged, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in, engrossed in thought, full of business, hard at it, hard at work, immersed in, immersed in thought, in harness, inhabited, intent, intent on, introspective, involved, lost in, lost in thought, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, obsessed, on duty, on the go, on the hop, on the job, on the jump, on the move, on the run, peopled, populated, populous, preoccupied, rapt, settled, single-minded, studious, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up with, tenanted, tied up, totally absorbed, working, wrapped in, wrapped in thought, wrapped up in
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