Synonym: absorption, engrossment, preoccupancy. Similar words: occupation, occupant, occupy, accusation, acculturation, participation, appreciation, presentation. Meaning: n. 1. an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention 2. the mental state of being preoccupied by something 3. the act of taking occupancy before someone else does.
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31 My only reservation with his classification of roles is that it reflects a Western preoccupation with task behaviours.
32 For primary class teachers, the National Curriculum and assessment provide the overwhelming preoccupation.
33 Experimentation with colour and support has become a major preoccupation for him.
34 When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her.
35 A sleepless alien might legitimately conclude that Earthlings' central preoccupation was this peculiar sort of inactivity.
36 Consumer protection has, in recent years, become more of a preoccupation for governments and pressure groups.
37 Politics became the major preoccupation shared by all, rather than the concern of the ruling few.
38 If pining for the object of your affections is your preoccupation, Asawa offers plenty of support here in these amatory plaints.
39 This preoccupation with death and judgment was not merely a cultural phenomenon it was deliberate.
40 Writing a will is not evidence of a morbid preoccupation with death.
41 When at home,[sentencedict.com] Mr Berisha's main preoccupation is keeping his unruly party under control.
42 Even before his Stockport vision had collapsed, Oldknow had begun a consuming preoccupation with this largely rural community.
43 The second source of error is the preoccupation with repression as the task of the agencies of the bourgeois class.
44 After the birth of her second child, Annie began to have religious doubts and returned to her preoccupation with theology.
45 Usually one constant theme related to the shared preoccupation of the couple underlies the seemingly different causes of rows and arguments.
46 More fundamentally, this preoccupation with numerical aspects may draw attention away from important issues that are more difficult to quantify.
47 Mr Reynolds' main preoccupation before his operation is with the stoma which will be formed during the procedure.
48 Richards found a preoccupation amongst employers with the image of engineering.
49 From chapter 8 onwards the theme of suffering is the major preoccupation of the book.
50 A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.
51 The congressional leaders with whom they dealt had similar backgrounds and a similar preoccupation.
52 An initial preoccupation was co-operation over economic development, but later priorities were internal security and defence.
53 Regular entertaining of company personnel, as well as occasional friends at weekends, threatened to become a major preoccupation for Laura.
54 Since far fewer females than males commit crimes, this preoccupation has been one main source of sexism.
55 Preoccupation with status itself may be the greatest barrier to intellectual achievement.
56 This perhaps reflects the painter's preoccupation with nature seen through the eyes of a romantic.
57 The shortcomings of such an approach lie in the preoccupation with social phenomena which are directly observable.
58 Hated it for its bleak isolation and petty preoccupation with the work of fences and confinement.
59 In the Romantic tradition a preoccupation with suicide and death is merely a further move on a continuum of sensuality and eroticism.
60 These apocalyptic still lifes emphasise more strongly than the earlier work Christa Dichgans' preoccupation with the psychic reality of objects.
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