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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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How to use occupied in a sentence?

  1. Terry Saltus:

    Fixing crime is an economy problem, most crimes are committed by the youth. So, you got to aim for the youth and keep them occupied in a way you can learn some skills, or learn some type of business.

  2. Debra Aho Williamson:

    Social media is evolving and Twitter needs to catch up, fleets give Twitter a way to compete in the' Stories' arena that Snapchat and Instagram have occupied for years. ... Twitter hasn't moved super quickly when it comes to launching new features, so I'm not surprised that Fleets has been slow to launch as well.

  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. Mohamed Osman:

    The fighters have fully occupied the hotel. They are up and downstairs. Police are just firing from the outside gate.

  5. Mandy Joyce:

    We discovered remarkable towers where every surface was occupied by some type of life, this is an amazing natural laboratory to document incredible organisms and better understand how they survive in extremely challenging environments.


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