When you're busy with work, you're occupied — you're engaged, or distracted by it. And when a country is occupied, it's been invaded and taken over by a foreign power — this last meaning was first used during World War II, referring to German-occupied France.
How do you use occupied in a sentence?
Occupied sentence example
- All her skills were occupied simply keeping all four wheels on the ground. ...
- Other things occupied my mind, I guess. ...
- Two occupied stalls and he couldn't figure out where to put the water. ...
- Was he ignoring her, or was his mind completely occupied with grief at the moment?
What is the difference between busy and occupied?
As adjectives the difference between busy and occupied
is that busy is crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on while occupied is reserved, engaged.
