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US
/ˈbɪzi/
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[ UK /bˈɪzi/ ]
[ UK /bˈɪzi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
crowded with or characterized by much activity
a busy life
a busy seaport
a very busy week
a busy street -
(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
receptionists' telephones are always engaged
her line is busy
kept getting a busy signal
the lavatory is in use -
actively or fully engaged or occupied
too busy to eat lunch
a busy man
busy with her work -
intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
busy about other people's business
an interfering old woman
bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself -
overcrowded or cluttered with detail
a fussy design
a busy painting
VERB
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keep busy with
She busies herself with her butterfly collection
How To Use busy In A Sentence
- They missed it because they are too busy bootlicking ObamaCare, on their hands and knees. Political Instability and the Coming Defeat of ObamaCare | RedState
- I have been very busy lately and the ongoing project will take up about a few more weeks.
- Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger. A table for one | 世論 What Japan Thinks
- Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. Horace
- Johnson and a cohort of industry representatives have been busy banging the drum for London's fintech scene.
- Pediatricians are once again extremely busy this winter as patients with asthma symptoms - the most common disease among children - are crowding into respiratory clinics.
- Which of us would want our lives to lay in ruin while those who are supposed to help are busy fighting over politics, power and property that does not belong to them? National Council of Churches
- Once upon a time there was an old sow of impeccable reputation who lived a quiet life inside a busy farmyard. Times, Sunday Times
- While he was busy, I punched a Tylenol caplet out of its plastic bubble. Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
- She always seems to be desperately busy!