Synonyms for occupied
oc·cu·pied

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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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1. List of paraphrases for "occupied":

   busy, occupying, occupation, golan, filled, held, israeli-occupied, employed, encumbered, inhabited

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1. Werner Patzelt:

   They claim that Germany is still an occupied country under US control, or a business enterprise registered in Frankfurt, from such fictitious ‘facts’ they derive both a ‘right’ not to pay taxes and penalties, or to establish ‘provisional political authorities.’.

2. Dominik Stillhart:

   In addition to the crises widely covered in 2015, next year on my radar will be Burundi (and the Great Lakes area), Israel and the Occupied Territories and Afghanistan, having worked in Afghanistan for 30 years, we see that the conflict is far from over and civilians continue to pay a heavy price: 2015 was one of the deadliest years since 2001. A deteriorating security situation forces people to leave their homes and seek refuge in neighbouring countries or try dangerous routes to Europe.

3. Paul Dergarabedian:

   It turned cartoons into cinematic art, it would forever change the perception of animation as more than just filler to keep kids occupied and distracted.

4. John Maynard Keynes:

   The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

5. Aron Lund:

   They see it as a Aron Lund controlled zone. It's like if Russia occupied part of Texas, then The US would be angry about it.