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.
Random good picture Not show
181 With time to kill at the airport, I occupied myself smirking at travelers struggling with overcoats.
182 Debates within the social sciences have occupied an intellectual space which has drawn upon both scientific models and the humanities.
183 You know how it is up there on the throne of clouds occupied by the very high and mighty of communications.
184 The section length occupied by the respective injury grades was expressed as a percentage of the total section length.
185 But there seemed no one about who was not already occupied with his own legitimate business.
186 But in the summer of 1954, though the hospital had available dozens of iron lungs, few were occupied.
187 In the box office, which is occupied by two women with patient smiles, they blame the trains.
188 This tiny cottage was occupied by a charming, grandmotherly lady called Mrs. Newman.
189 My mind was on my work, and I had never been more fully occupied.
190 Suites of store-rooms occupied a large area of the temple.
191 A biology student with a stutter now occupied the back room.
192 In the Perth/Borders area tourism and soft fruit occupied the summer and autumn periods.
193 In the hummocky terrain of the valley floor the hollows,(Sentencedict) channels and gentle slopes are occupied by peat.
194 In front of an open fireplace in the hall, a couple of large leather armchairs were occupied by two men in dark suits.
195 Here he gained valuable experience and, though occupied with much routine work, commenced innovative research.
196 The reason that Leith did not immediately answer was that her brain was fully occupied.
197 Everything fine and dandy as long as she was gainfully occupied.
198 Catholic graves, ancient and modern, occupied most of the ground.
199 She had taken to growling menacingly at the more impressionable of the remedials to keep herself occupied.
200 The fertile lowlands are always the first places to be occupied and Java was no exception.
201 In the Manse the household occupied themselves with the task of preparing a feast fit for the assembled lords.
202 Among the photographers who were occupied in producing nude studies for the ateliers of Paris bas Julien Vallou de Villeneuve.
203 An arrangement of more than four similar events into a circular orbit emphasises the centre, which may be occupied or not.
204 The children in particular had a great time with computer games, entertainers and bouncy castles to keep them occupied.
205 In the fringing rural areas, existing residents seek to exclude lower income owner occupied developments.
206 A wood-burning iron stove occupied the hearth of a big stone fireplace at one end.
207 The cemetery is so densely occupied that in many of the mausoleums, coffins are piled up to 10m high.
208 Nietzsche was soon to substitute a new opposition whose polar extremes were occupied by visual art and music.
209 The seat on my left was occupied by a fat lady who was busy peeling an orange.
210 The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward.
More similar words: unoccupied, preoccupied, occupy, occupant, preoccupy, occupation, occupational, preoccupation, occupancy rate, cupid, porcupine, occur, occurring, occurrence, pupil, stupid, jupiter, cup, pie, cupboard, piety, piece, soccer, recuperate, pierce, sapient, piebald, accuse, occident, occasion.