vacant vs occupied
Definitions
adjective
- void of intelligence or thought
- without an occupant or incumbent
Examples
One of the most ruthlessly funny segments has our vacant working girl revealing how she once sponsored a foster child - chosen for her big-eyed adorability.
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.
Definitions
adjective
- resided in; having tenants
- held or filled or in use
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- seized and controlled as by military invasion
Examples
The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements.
Officers in gay uniforms were scattered among the dark anchorites, who occupied one end of the table, while the _bourgeoisie_, with here and there a blue-caftaned peasant wedged among them, filled the other end.
Polar bears have successfully occupied virtually all available sea ice habitats throughout the circumpolar Arctic and the global population was last estimated at 21,500-25,000 individuals.
