preoccupied

adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

Prepossessed; biased.

2

Already occupied.

Terrified at this uproar, which disconcerted the magician himself, she ran for shelter into the place which was preoccupied by the other lady […].

Scythrop, retiring to his tower, found his study preoccupied.

3

Describing a taxonomic name not available for use because it is already used for another.

In 1924 J. D. Tothill revised the nearctic species in the genus Fabriciella, a name proposed by Bezzi in 1906 to replace Fabricia Rob. D. which is preoccupied.

4

Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.

I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.

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