UNOCCUPIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unoccupied mean? 

• UNOCCUPIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNOCCUPIED has 3 senses:

1. not held or filled or in use

2. not seized and controlled

3. not leased to or occupied by a tenant

  Familiarity information: UNOCCUPIED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNOCCUPIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not held or filled or in use

Context example:

unoccupied hours

Similar:

free (not occupied or in use)

free; spare (not taken up by scheduled activities)

Antonym:

occupied (held or filled or in use)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not seized and controlled

Context example:

unoccupied areas of France

Similar:

relinquished (that has been withdrawn or retreated from)

Antonym:

occupied (seized and controlled as by military invasion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not leased to or occupied by a tenant

Synonyms:

unoccupied; untenanted

Context example:

very little unclaimed and untenanted land

Similar:

uninhabited (not having inhabitants; not lived in)

 Context examples 

“He is in unoccupied premises under suspicious circumstances,” said Gregson.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The seat behind was unoccupied.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When my evenings were unoccupied by the pursuit for which I had qualified myself with so much pains, and I was engaged in writing at home, she would sit quietly near me, however late the hour, and be so mute, that I would often think she had dropped asleep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She saw a large, well-proportioned apartment, an handsome dimity bed, arranged as unoccupied with an housemaid's care, a bright Bath stove, mahogany wardrobes, and neatly painted chairs, on which the warm beams of a western sun gaily poured through two sash windows!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There was a covered way across a little paved court, to an entrance that was never used; and there was one round staircase window, at odds with all the rest, and the only one unshaded by a blind, which had the same unoccupied blank look.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have received a letter from Mr. Murdstone, in which he mentions that he would desire me to receive into an apartment in the rear of my house, which is at present unoccupied—and is, in short, to be let as a—in short, said the stranger, with a smile and in a burst of confidence, as a bedroom—the young beginner whom I have now the pleasure to— and the stranger waved his hand, and settled his chin in his shirt-collar.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)