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Preoccupied Pronunciation

Pronounce Preoccupied as P R EH OW K K UW P IY EH D.

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    Preoccupied phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'preoccupied'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of preoccupied: /prɛoʊkkupɪɛd/
    • Modern IPA representation of preoccupied: /prɛɒccʊpɪɛd/

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    List of meaning for preoccupied

    to become obsessed or completely concerned with something

    bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupied(adj)

    deeply absorbed in thought

    "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"

    haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)(adj)

    having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

    "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"

    lost in thought and unaware of one's surroundings or actions

    too preoccupied with her worries to enjoy the meal

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    preoccupied in sentence

    1. Following the doctor informing the patient about his terminal illness, the patient’s mind was always preoccupied with the thoughts of his impending death.

    2. Many greedy people spend so much of their time being preoccupied with money that they forget about the really great things in life.

    3. The preoccupied girl never noticed the boy behind the gate or the way he loved to stare at her lovely blond locks.

    4. Anyone who has been on a diet will spend their time in between meals being preoccupied with the thoughts of eating desserts.

    5. Working day and night, the accountant suffered from monomania and was extremely preoccupied with his job.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term preoccupied

    Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

    – Marianne Williamson

    Countries sometimes do become preoccupied with their internal political issues and they don't get around dealing with external debt problem until it becomes messy.

    – Lee Buchheit

    We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.

    – Lawrence K. Frank

    The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.

    – Tom Carter

    This did not happen even during the Cold War, but today, influential forces in the USA, preoccupied with trying to pressure Russia hard, do not stop at anything...They are trying to fence off Americans from Russians with a visa wall, as we've said before, making trips of our citizens to the USA practically impossible.

    – The Foreign Ministry

    The top brass at VW group and Audi are so preoccupied with the diesel issue that the company's management is lastingly distracted.

    – Christian Strenger

    The country was preoccupied with fulfilling its basic needs in the past. Now it has become ambitious and is undertaking massive infrastructure projects by itself.

    – Abel Abate Demissie

    No one man is in charge. It’s a negotiating team, sometimes the India team does get preoccupied by having to fend off all these attacks, but they will not buckle under finger pointing from a small group of Western countries.

    – Shyam Saran

    THERE ARE THOSE WHO SIT AND WONDER WHY OTHERS STRIVE AMONGST ALL THE ODDS. THEY WILL NEVER KNOW, AS THEY ARE THE ONES WHO TRY TO KEEP OTHERS BACK BY THEIR ENVY AND CONNIVANCE WITH WHICH THEY ARE PREOCCUPIED MOST OF THE TIME'- RICARDO A SCOTT, REGGAE INVENTOR FROM TRENCH TOWN

    – Ricardo A Scott

    Self-centeredness is nothing else but being preoccupied only with oneself or one's own affairs. It is more of being too interested in yourself and not caring about the needs or feelings of other people. And that is inhumane. Oh! yes, life is not meant to be all about you. In fact, meeting someone else's or other people's needs should be one of your priorities in all you do in life (mark you). ~Emeasoba George

    – Emeasoba George

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