occupied

Reserved; engaged.

Adjective

  1. Reserved; engaged.
    • The stall on the left is occupied.
  2. Busy; unavailable.
    • She is occupied at the moment.
  3. Subjugated; under the control of a foreign (usually military) presence.
    • My father travelled to occupied Japan in December 1945.
    • As he creeps towards the main road, someone, another occupied former human, pokes their head around the corner, then calls to others in the strange language, pointing him out. Wheeler stops in his tracks. In another...

Forms

more occupied most occupied

Hyponyms

owner-occupied

Derived

human-occupied vehicle keep someone occupied multioccupied overoccupied underoccupied unoccupied

Interjection

  1. Used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable.

Synonyms

ocupado

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of occupy