preoccupied

adjective

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Prepossessed; biased.
Already occupied.
“Terrified at this uproar, which disconcerted the magician himself, she ran for shelter into the place which was preoccupied by the other lady […].”
“Scythrop, retiring to his tower, found his study preoccupied.”
Describing a taxonomic name not available for use because it is already used for another.
“In 1924 J. D. Tothill revised the nearctic species in the genus Fabriciella, a name proposed by Bezzi in 1906 to replace Fabricia Rob. D. which is preoccupied.”
Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
“I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.”