occupied

adjective

Involved in activity or work: busy, employed, engaged. See action/inaction.

adj

Definition: busy
Antonyms: free, idle, inactive, not busy, unoccupied

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IN BRIEF: To take up ones attention.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. — Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer, longtime resident in France.

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The adjective has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: held or filled or in use
  Antonym: unoccupied (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: seized and controlled as by military invasion
  Antonym: unoccupied (meaning #2)

Meaning #3: resided in; having tenants
  Synonym: tenanted

Meaning #4: having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
  Synonym: engaged

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