busy
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English bisiġ.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
busy (comparative busier, superlative busiest)
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Positive |
- Doing a great deal; having a lot of things to do in the space of time given
- It has been a busy day.
- Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
- The director cannot see you now, he's busy.
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
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[edit] Translations
doing a great deal
engaged
[edit] Verb
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to busy (third-person singular simple present busies, present participle busying, simple past and past participle busied)
- To make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
- On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
- To rush somebody.

