occupied vs vacant

occupied

Definitions

adjective

  1. resided in; having tenants
  2. held or filled or in use
  3. having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
  4. seized and controlled as by military invasion

Examples

Dylan seemed exhausted, self-preoccupied, and morbidly depressed.

I'd like to have something special planned that will keep them occupied and outside in the garden as much as possible.

It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition.

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vacant

Definitions

adjective

  1. void of intelligence or thought
  2. without an occupant or incumbent

Examples

Already-strapped budgets were being cut further and all vacant positions were frozen, leaving a staffing shortage throughout campus.

He was excellently placed to be the next Poet Laureate when the position fell vacant in ninety-six.

At this point the imagery begins to repeat itself in different iterations, as it will for the rest of the novel: The man is at the station where the woman is now looking at him "vacantly"; the dog appears again, blocking his path; he walks along the street, where "a cyclist is trying to pedal along," the fish in his saddle bag now joined by a loaf of bread on top of it.

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