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preoccupancy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun preoccupancy has 2 senses
- preoccupancy(n = noun.cognition) absorption, engrossment, preoccupation - the mental state of being preoccupied by something; Array is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
- preoccupancy(n = noun.act) preoccupation - the act of taking occupancy before someone else does; Array is a kind of moving in, occupancy, occupation
has particulars: abstractedness, abstraction, absentmindedness
Derived forms adjective preoccupied2, adjective preoccupied1, verb preoccupy1
CIDE DICTIONARY
preoccupancy, n. [See Preoccupate.].
The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
preoccupancy
Possession
N possession, seizin, seisin, ownership, occupancy, hold, holding, tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency, villenage, villeinage, socage, chivalry, knight service, exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention, prepossession, preoccupancy, nine points of the law, corner, usucaption, future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority, primogeniture, ultimogeniture, futures contract, warrant, put, call, option, right of first refusal, bird in hand, uti possidetis, chose in possession, possessing, worth, possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of, usucapient, endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with, possessed, on hand, by one, in hand, in store, in stock, in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession, at one's command, at one's disposal, one's own, unsold, unshared, entbehre gern was du nicht hast, meum et tuum, tuum est.
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