occupied

adjective

1 a steady stream of clients kept her occupied until the middle of the afternoon:

busy, engaged, working, employed, at work, on the job, hard-pressed, active;

absorbed, engrossed, interested, involved, focused on, immersed, preoccupied;

informal tied up, hard at it, wrapped up, on the go, on the trot;

British, informal on the hop.

2 all the tables were occupied:

in use, full, engaged, taken, unavailable.

3 only two of the apartments are occupied:

inhabited, lived-in, tenanted, settled.

▷antonyms free, idle, vacant, empty.

choose the right word	occupied, busy, engaged, active
See busy.