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US
/pɹiˌɑkjəˈpeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /pɹɪˌɒkjʊpˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪˌɒkjʊpˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention
- the mental state of being preoccupied by something
- the act of taking occupancy before someone else does
How To Use preoccupation In A Sentence
- Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa, are characterised by morbid preoccupation with weight and shape and manifest through distorted or chaotic eating behaviour.
- The preoccupation with the problem of evil, asserts Nietzsche, enervates the human spirit.
- A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.
- Their main preoccupation for the next few months will be acorns, their main winter food. Times, Sunday Times
- But it was the modernisation of the Armed Forces which was his central preoccupation. Times, Sunday Times
- The saving grace of the past few days has been my preoccupation with a new geeky toy, a DVD recorder.
- Their main preoccupation was how to feed their families.Sentencedict
- My only reservation with his classification of roles is that it reflects a Western preoccupation with task behaviours.
- Such preoccupations rarely seem to have troubled the solitary beings who inhabit the clamorous pages of her witty, erudite and anecdotal - if inconclusive - study.
- He said leadership had become a huge preoccupation because organisations had changed over the past few decades, with power and responsibility being devolved down the organisational chain. Times, Sunday Times