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occupied, ppl. a.|ˈɒkjʊpaɪd|
[f. occupy + -ed1.]
Taken possession of; held in possession, dwelt in; taken up, filled up; busied, engaged, employed: see the verb. Esp. of countries held by Germany and her allies during the war of 1939–45; of parts of countries under military occupation.
1483Cath. Angl. 258/1 Occupyed, occupatus. 1535Coverdale Isa. xxxii. 14 The palaces..shal be broken, and the greatly occupide cities desolate. 1884Sir R. Rawlinson in Pall Mall G. 9 July 1/2 Eastern peoples..are to this day bad sanitarians; there occupied sites are foul. 1897Daily News 10 Dec. 5/2 A mortality..greater than that of occupied males generally. 1940R. W. B. Clarke Britain's Blockade 7 The division of France into ‘occupied’ and ‘non-occupied’ territory is nothing more than a device to relieve the Germans of the administrative difficulties created by the millions of refugees, [etc.]. 1940A. Huxley Let. 9 Oct. (1969) 459 There is practically no communication between occupied France and the USA. 1941Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Oct. 514/1 (heading) In occupied Belgium. 1965M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate vii. 280 ‘So far as I know she's still in Israel—’ Joe Ramdez clapped his hands over his ears... ‘Occupied Palestine,’ Freddy said with deference. 1973L. Snelling Heresy i. i. 8 In Paris, capital of Occupied France, in the abnormally hot summer of nineteen-forty. |