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Busy vs Occupied - What's the difference?

busy | 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.

As verbs the difference between busy and occupied

is that busy is to make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied while occupied is past tense of occupy.

As a noun busy

is {{cx|slang|UK|Liverpool|derogatory|lang=en}} A police officer.

busy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
  • a busy street
  • * Shakespeare
  • To-morrow is a busy day.
  • Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
  • The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
    Her telephone has been busy all day.
    She is too busy to have time for riddles.
  • Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
  • Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
  • Officious; meddling.
  • * 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
  • I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.

    Verb

  • To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
  • * On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
  • To rush somebody.
  • Noun

    (busies)
  • A police officer.
  • occupied

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Reserved, engaged.
  • The stall on the left is occupied .
  • Busy, unavailable.
  • she is occupied at the moment
  • Subjugated, under the control of a foreign military presence.
  • travelled to occupied Japan in December 1945
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (occupy)