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occupied |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Occupied}; p. pr & vb n. {Occupying}.] [OE. occupien, F. occuper, fr.L. occupare; ob (see {Ob-}) + a word akin to capere to take See {Capacious}.] 1. To take or hold possession of to hold or keep for use to possess. Woe occupieth the fine [/end] of our gladness. --Chaucer. The better apartments were already occupied. --W. Irving. 2. To hold or fill, the dimensions of to take up the room or space of to cover or fill; as the camp occupies five acres of ground. --Sir J. Herschel. 3. To possess or use the time or capacity of to engage the service of to employ; to busy. An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six --Eng. Statute (Hen. VIII. ) They occupied themselves about the Sabbath. --2 Macc. viii. 27. 4. To do business in to busy one's self with [Obs.] All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise. --Ezek. xxvii. 9. Not able to occupy their old crafts. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 5. To use to expend; to make use of [Obs.] All the gold that was occupied for the work --Ex. xxxviii 24. They occupy not money themselves. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 6. To have sexual intercourse with [Obs.] --Nares. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: occupied adj 1: held or filled or in use "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied" [ant: {unoccupied}] 2: seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied countries of Europe" [ant: {unoccupied}] 3: resided in having tenants; "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up" [syn: {tenanted}] 4: having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation" [syn: {engaged}]
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