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Occupied vs Occupation - What's the difference?

occupied | occupation |

As an adjective occupied

is reserved, engaged.

As a verb occupied

is (occupy).

As a noun occupation is

an activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.

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)

    • occupation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
  • The act, process or state of possessing a place.
  • The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}

    Synonyms

    * (activity with which one occupies oneself) profession, vocation, interest, employment