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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1. Kirill Martynov:

   It's kind of tragic because we have our society collapsed and no economic hopes, and we also don't see any political future for our homeland, our country, we have a lot of pro-war propaganda. It's quite stupid and aggressive. And basically, you start to feel like a person who lives in a kind of occupied land, like it's not your country. It's a country which was occupied by some foreign invaders, some kind of enemy.

2. Ismail Haniya:

   I say to our people everywhere, be prepared for a human deluge on all of the borders of Palestine, inside the occupied land and outside the occupied land, i say to the (Israeli occupiers) your time is gone.

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. 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. Gertrude Stein:

   Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.