occupied
/ˈɒkjʊpʌɪd
/adjective
1(Of a building, seat, etc.) being used by someone: only the ground floor is fully occupied...
- The hospital was almost completely occupied by aircrew burns patients.
- At the time in question it was occupied by a number of young men.
- The main part of the divided house is now occupied by another Irishman.
2Busy and active: tasks which kept her occupied for the day...
- William only nodded, barely registering parts of the discussion in his mind, which was occupied elsewhere.
- Traumatized, she threw herself into her studies to keep her mind occupied.
- An action-packed timetable to keep youngsters occupied this summer is on offer at Horwich Leisure Centre.
3(Of a place, especially a country) taken control of by military conquest or settlement: the occupied territories...
- The most obvious exclusion, which was not foreseen by the early Zionists, is the status of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.
- Already, prior to the latest crisis, unemployment of Palestinians in the occupied territories stood at 50 percent.
- I joined a project focused on secondary education in all of occupied Iraq.
- at one's elbow
- at one's fingertips
- at one's leisure
- at one's mother's (or father's) knee
- at one's (own) risk
- at one's peril
- at one time
- atonic
- atony
- atop
- atopic
- atopy
- -ator
- at (or by) the hands (or hand) of
- at (or in) a pinch
- at (or in) close quarters
- at (or in) law
- at (or in) one fell swoop
- at (or on) short (or a moment's) notice
- at (or on) the heels of
- at (or to) heel
- infructescence
- in fruit
- infula
- in full