preoccupied

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Prepossessed; biased.
2. sıfat 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 […].”

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

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

5. fiil simple past and past participle of preoccupy