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My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.
Els Borst

Meaning of "occupied" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OCCUPIED

occupied  [ˈɒkjʊpaɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCCUPIED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Occupied is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OCCUPIED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

occupied

Military occupation

Military occupation is effective provisional control of a certain power over a territory which is not under the formal sovereignty of that entity, without the volition of the actual sovereign. The intended temporary nature of occupation, when no claim for permanent sovereignty is made by the occupying entity, distinguishes occupation from annexation. Military government may be broadly characterized as the administration or supervision of occupied territory, or as the governmental form of such an administration. Military government is distinguished from martial law, which is the temporary rule by domestic armed forces over disturbed areas. The rules of military government are delineated in various international agreements, primarily the Hague Convention of 1907, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, as well as established state practice. The relevant international conventions, the International Committee of the Red Cross Commentaries, and other treaties by military scholars...

Definition of occupied in the English dictionary

The first definition of occupied in the dictionary is busy doing or thinking about something. Other definition of occupied is in use and so not available for anyone else. Occupied is also under the control of an occupying military force.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OCCUPIED


enemy-occupied
ˌenəmɪˈɒkjʊpaɪd
owner-occupied
ˌəʊnəʳˈɒkjʊˌpaɪd
pied
paɪd
polypide
ˈpɒlɪˌpaɪd
preoccupied
priːˈɒkjʊˌpaɪd
self-preoccupied
ˌsɛlfprɪˈɒkjʊpaɪd
spide
ˈspaɪd
underoccupied
ˌʌndərˈɒkjʊpaɪd
unespied
ˌʌnɪˈspaɪd
unoccupied
ʌnˈɒkjʊˌpaɪd
unpreoccupied
ˌʌnprɪˈɒkjʊˌpaɪd
unspied
ʌnˈspaɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OCCUPIED

occupation franchise
occupation grouping
occupation groupings
occupational
occupational guidance
occupational hazard
occupational health
occupational medicine
occupational pension
occupational psychologist
occupational psychology
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
occupational therapist
occupational therapy
occupationally
occupative
Occupied Territories
occupier
occupies
occupy

WORDS THAT END LIKE OCCUPIED

canopied
carried
certified
classified
copied
deep-fried
espied
identified
married
modified
passepied
photocopied
poppied
reoccupied
specified
spied
studied
supplied
tried
verified

Synonyms and antonyms of occupied in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «OCCUPIED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «occupied» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of occupied

Translation of «occupied» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OCCUPIED

Find out the translation of occupied to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of occupied from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «occupied» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

占用
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ocupada
570 millions of speakers

English

occupied
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पर कब्जा कर लिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المحتلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заняты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ocupada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অধিকৃত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

occupé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diduduki
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

besetzt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

占有
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

점령
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dikuwasani
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiếm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆக்கிரமிக்கப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्याप्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

meşgul
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

occupato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zajęte
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зайняті
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ocupat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατεχόμενα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beset
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ockuperade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

okkupert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of occupied

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OCCUPIED»

The term «occupied» is very widely used and occupies the 10.572 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OCCUPIED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «occupied» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «occupied» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about occupied

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10 QUOTES WITH «OCCUPIED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word occupied.
1
Karl Abraham
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
2
John Amery
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
3
John James Audubon
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
4
Simone de Beauvoir
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
5
Bernard Berenson
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
6
Els Borst
My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.
7
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
8
Arthur Cayley
But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
9
Rosemarie DeWitt
I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.
10
Pierre Dukan
I like to feel occupied.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCCUPIED»

Discover the use of occupied in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to occupied and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Occupied
Conceived as a book of poetry and record, OCCUPIED offers a Reference section as grounding for its emotions and its facts. "Carol Mirakove's poetry does its work not only through rage and persistence but also through tenderness.
Carol Mirakove, 2004
2
Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks
* Includes an Introduction from Rosemary Radford Ruether * Shows on-the-ground realities of interreligious relations
Jean Zaru, Diana L. Eck, Marla Schrader, 2008
3
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
The book conveys the intense excitement of those present at the birth of a counterculture, while providing the movement with a serious platform for debating goals, demands, and tactics.
Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, 2011
4
Occupied Economies: An Economic History of Nazi-Occupied ...
Others were still occupied in 1945. Therefore, it seems reasonable to estimate that occupied Europe paid around 25 per cent of the German war costs, and the whole of dependent Europe nearly a third. This is quite a substantial sum, but far  ...
Hein A.M. Klemann, Sergei Kudryashov, 2013
5
Occupied minds: a journey through the Israeli psyche
Illustrated interviews with Israelis, offering a unique insight into the diversity and contradictions of Israeli identity.
Arthur Neslen, 2006
6
Occupied France: Collaboration And Resistance 1940-1944
Roderick Kedward shows how ordinary people experienced the occupation; he examines the politics and ideology of the Victory regime, and he discusses the many different forms of resistance launched from inside and outside France.
Roderick Kedward, 1985
7
Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948: The Untold History of ...
This book investigates the dynamic linkages between foreign film culture, imported films, national cultural policy and audience reception, and the significant impact that all these elements had on the transformation of cinema in Korea ...
Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim, 2012
8
Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan: Struggles ...
"This new volume from Armando Navarro is a comprehensive political history of the Mexicano experience in the United States.
Armando Navarro, 2005
9
The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and ...
A critical examination of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Israel in cases relating to the Occupied Territories.
David Kretzmer, 2002
10
Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944
This is a pioneering study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German, Italian and Bulgarian forces in 1941 and 1942.
Violetta Hionidou, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCCUPIED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term occupied is used in the context of the following news items.
1
French MP's condemned for visit to Ukraine's Russian-occupied
Ukraine and France have criticized a group of French deputies for visiting the Russian-annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea on Friday. «Ukraine Today, Jul 15»
2
Rains, landslides kill 9 in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
Islamabad: At least nine people have been killed during five days of torrential rain and landslides in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), ... «IBNLive, Jul 15»
3
Occupied Azerbaijani lands larger than Israel
The Azerbaijani territory occupied by Armenia is bigger than the entire territory of Israel, said Lev Spivak, Director General of the International ... «AzerNews, Jul 15»
4
Fate of Ukrainian journalist detained in occupied Luhansk is still …
​​Editor's Note: ​Kyiv Post+ is a public service offering special coverage of Russia's war against Ukraine and the aftermath of the EuroMaidan ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
5
Major bank slashes owner-occupied rates, hikes investment rates
There is no change to other variable lending rates including the standard variable rate for owner-occupied home loans or for business lending. «Broker News Australia, Jul 15»
6
Technical Committee on Culture to Host Concert in Occupied
The newly formed Technical Committee on Culture, aiming to promote and facilitate cultural events, which will bring the two communities closer ... «Greek Reporter, Jul 15»
7
Isis: Turkish soldier killed by gunfire from Islamic State occupied Syria
Gunfire from the Isis-held area of Syria just across the border with Turkey has killed a Turkish officer and wounded another five soldiers in the ... «International Business Times UK, Jul 15»
8
Three youths gunned down by Indian soldiers in Occupied Kashmir
Srinagar: Indian aggression in Occupied Kashmir showed no signs of abatement as Indian soldiers gunned down three young Kashmiris on ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
9
MC man pleads not guilty to burglarizing occupied homes
MASON CITY | A Mason City man was arrested Saturday after allegedly breaking into a home and attempting to assault the person living there. «Mason City Globe Gazette, Jul 15»
10
Suspect who fired gun at occupied vehicle arrested
On July 9, Des Moines police patrol officers responded to a report of an assault where the suspect had fired a gun at an occupied vehicle in the ... «KCCI Des Moines, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Occupied [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/occupied>. May 2024 ».
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