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.

   See synonyms for IDLE.

   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 say occupied in sign language?

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How to use occupied in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. President Zelenskyy:

   We don't need your sanctions after the bombardment will happen, and after our country will be fired at or after we will have no borders or after we will have no economy or parts of our country will be occupied, why would we need those sanctions then ?

3. Richard Kozul-Wright:

   Inequality, indebtedness, insecurity, (and) insufficient investment have been long-standing problems in the Palestinian occupied territories.

4. Blaise Pascal:

   If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

5. Narendra Modi:

   The people of Kashmir want freedom from the families who have occupied the region for 50 years, the situation in Kashmir is such that the people there want change, whether it is over the issue of section 370 or section 35A.