occupied

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I pointed her towards these absolute classics which kept her occupied for months, and then she passed them down to her kids.

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held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of occupied gathered in one view.

adjective

held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"

adjective

seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied countries of Europe"

adjective

resided in; having tenants; "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for occupied.

adjective

held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"

adjective

seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied countries of Europe"

adjective

resided in; having tenants; "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"

adjective

having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation"

Example sentences

I pointed her towards these absolute classics which kept her occupied for months, and then she passed them down to her kids.

First, they were occupied by the Soviets, with all that entailed, purges, gulags and so on. Then they were occupied by the Nazis, and things got a whole lot worse.

So they both need to be in the same cgroup for memory purposes, since they're sharing the memory occupied by the loaded data.

I can't help but notice that the region occupied by the memristor is what would be best described as a 'flux-capacitor'.

Decidedly forward-looking for a homeless guy, the owner started collecting them in one pile on whatever street he occupied.

""The second is the kind of scandalous, sordid stories of individual misconduct which keep us occupied, but just leave us throwing our hands up wondering 'what is this world coming to?'.

"Notionally, this is a forum for creators, but it seems increasingly pre-occupied with utterly unproductive posturing over whose tastes are 'better'.

Here in post-collapse Argentina, I semi-regularly attend a free bike repair workshop run by a bunch of anarchists who occupied a pizzeria abandoned in the collapse, twelve years ago.

During a heatwave in the area occupied by the datacenter used for most of the indexing process, the datacenter began to overheat, so one of the guys on my team was getting temperature updates every 10 to 15 minutes from a guy actually in the datacenter, and adjusting the number of processes running the indexing system up and down accordingly in order to match indexing speed to the cooling capacity.