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Synonyms for busy

active

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occupied with

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occupied with
working
engaged in
on duty
employed in
preoccupied with
absorbed in
immersed in
hard at work
engrossed in
in harness
on active service
hard at work on
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hectic

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crowded

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busy yourself

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occupy yourself
be engrossed
immerse yourself
involve yourself
amuse yourself
absorb yourself
employ yourself
engage yourself
keep busy or occupied

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for busy

involved in activity or work

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excessively filled with detail

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to make busy

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Synonyms for busy

keep busy with

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occupy

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actively or fully engaged or occupied

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idle

overcrowded or cluttered with detail

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fussy

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fancy

intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

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intrusive

crowded with or characterized by much activity

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active

(of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability

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occupied

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Purchase tickets via the Busy Brains Children's Museum web site at busybrains.org or by calling 224-381-0138.

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"Sorry, dear, I'm busy right now," he replies, while updating his Facebook status.

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Busy Beaver marketing coordinator Amanda Nestor says the company was excited to participate.

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A festive environment in shopping was noticed at the busy markets including, Tench Bhatta, Saddar, Lalkurti, Moti Bazar, Commercial Market and several other markets of the town.

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"Breaking Up with Busy" outlines ways to shift and calm the mind, learn how to say no, and create our own "busy-busting solutions".

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Meanwhile, heavy traffic allowed to move through and along the busy roads of the city creates irregular flow of the traffic in the city.

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Catering to the festive demand, the bakers around the clock are busy to get orders for cakes, basket full of delicious cookies and hand-crafted chocolates, he added.

Bakers busy in making deligious cakes as Christmas approaches

That's certainly been the case with Chamber members Haines Watts Chartered Accountants, who have been busy enough to need to add staff to their R&D tax team and Ouseburn-based photo lab Digitalab, Chamber members for 65 years, who have been busy winning a national award in their sector.

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Busy Bees Childcare presented the award to Coventry nursery staff for their consistently high standards which impressed inspectors from the Busy Bees childcare team.

Excellence award for nursery staff

"Busy Busy!" is a mind-boggling portrait of a day in the life of an active, imaginative, creative, especially busy toddler.

Busy Busy!

Next time you start to describe yourself as "busy," you might want to take a pause and consider what Tony Crabbe has to say about the word's real meaning.

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