occupied

oc·cu·py  (ky-p)

tr.v. oc·cu·pied, oc·cu·py·ing, oc·cu·pies

1. To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours.

2. To dwell or reside in.

3. To hold or fill (an office or position).

4. To seize possession of and maintain control over by or as if by conquest.

5. To engage or employ the attention or concentration of: occupied the children with coloring books.

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[Middle English occupien, alteration of Old French occuper, from Latin occupre, to seize : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

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occu·pier n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	occupied - held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied" unoccupied - not held or filled or in use; "an unoccupied telephone booth"; "unoccupied hours"
	2.	occupied - seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied countries of Europe" unoccupied - not seized and controlled; "unoccupied areas of France"
	3.	occupied - resided in; having tenants; "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up" tenanted inhabited - having inhabitants; lived in; "the inhabited regions of the earth"
	4.	occupied - having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation" engaged busy - actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"

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occupied

adjective

1. in use, taken, full, engaged, unavailable three beds, two of which were occupied

2. inhabited, peopled, lived-in, settled, tenanted The house was occupied by successive generations of farmers.
inhabited empty, deserted, vacant, uninhabited, unoccupied, untenanted, tenantless

3. busy, engaged, employed, working, active, tied up (informal), engrossed, hard at work, in harness, hard at it (informal), rushed off your feet I forgot about it because I was so occupied with other things.

Translations

occupied [ˈɒkjʊpaɪd] adj

(= busy) [person] → occupé(e)
to keep sb occupied → occuper qn
Keep the brain occupied! → Occupez-vous l'esprit!
to be occupied with sth → être occupé à qch
to be occupied with doing sth → être occupé à faire qch

[seat, place] → occupé(e)
That seat is occupied → Cette place est occupée.

occupied

adj

house, room → belegt; a room occupied by four people → ein von vier Personen bewohntes Zimmer; is this seat occupied? → ist dieser Platz belegt?

(Mil etc) country, territory → besetzt

(= busy) → beschäftigt; to be occupied with something → mit etw beschäftigt sein; to keep somebody occupied → jdn beschäftigen; that’ll keep him occupied → dann hat er was zu tun, dann ist er beschäftigt; he kept his mind occupied → er beschäftigte sich geistig