Synonym: engaged, tenanted. Similar words: unoccupied, preoccupied, occupy, occupant, preoccupy, occupation, occupational, preoccupation. Meaning: ['ɑkjəpaɪd /'ɒkjʊ-] adj. 1. held or filled or in use 2. seized and controlled as by military invasion 3. resided in; having tenants 4. having ones attention or mind or energy engaged.
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151 There was quite a social calendar to keep me occupied if I ever tired of my own company.
152 A common thread to the sites throughout Britain, however, comes from plants originating in gardens that formerly occupied the sites.
153 There the workers occupied their factory when the multinational company Molins announced its closure.
154 It's bad enough now, but it must have been really something when it was occupied.
155 After fifty years, two hundred sculpted trees occupied three sloping acres at the shore of Lake Waban in Wellesley.
156 She was an automaton, carrying out the simple instructions of her neural program: If whit fly occupied, withhold sperm.
157 The enemy evidently thought General McClellan still occupied the house....
158 The infirmary and stables had become dilapidated during the wars, having been occupied by enemy cavalry, and were empty.
159 But I had many other interests which kept me fully occupied at the time.
160 In order to ensure the support of the nationalist parties Shamir increased settlement funding, including infrastructural development of the occupied territories.
161 I feel it was important that the men had work to do that occupied their minds and bodies.
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162 In 1951, some nesting burrows, occupied, were found on islets near Castle Roads.
163 Opposite to David's desk stood a smaller one occupied by the articled clerk.
164 But this occupied little time; and then, business over, there followed an hour of unrestrained jollity.
165 Her booming voice, very frightening to children, was usually occupied in gossiping to every passer-by.
166 My labouring minutes were occupied with fantasies of the most horrific kind.
167 At times, even in the cities, an anthill occupied by a Cobra can be the cause of great traffic problems.
168 Bargaining might be said to help fill the vacuum that in other systems is occupied by disciplined political parties.
169 They held impressive but obscure titles, occupied spacious and comfortable offices, and indulged in frequent travel and long lunches.
170 The little cups occupied by the polyps in life have been exposed by the weathering.
171 Women orbited about surfers on the beach; they clung to them in cars; they occupied their houses in loose liaisons.
172 The report stressed that the original intention of right-to-buy legislation was to enable public sector tenants to purchase the houses they occupied.
173 The attempt to harness that power as a controlled source of useful energy has occupied scientists and engineers ever since.
174 Mrs Bujok and her family occupied a house as council tenants.
175 The Cavaliers occupied Burghley House, but they were heavily outnumbered, and Cromwell forced them to surrender after a bitter siege.
176 Madame de Rochefort and Antoinette both had suites on the first floor, while the Baron occupied rooms at ground level.
177 For the next hour our hugs and tears occupied all my attention-but none of that was seen by the public.
178 Occupied with morning rituals, she nearly forgot the night's distress.
179 We will see how the mummies occupied the midpoint of the most important overland trade route in Eurasian history.
180 Our plot occupied a compact square nested in a palm of earth on the eastern side of the river.
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