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busy English

Meaning busy meaning

What does busy mean?
Definitions in simple English

busy Adjective

— If you are busy, you are doing something and not available to do something else. I'm sorry, I'm busy on Monday. Can we get together on Wednesday? I'm too busy to go to the movies. The doctor's busy with another emergency. We need something to keep the kids busy in the car. — If a place is busy, there are many people or vehicles moving about. The roads are busy this morning, so give yourself extra time. Hartsfield-Jackson International is the world's busiest airport. — If a telephone is busy someone is using it and cannot take a call. I tried to call him, but the line was busy. — If a design is busy there are too many small elements in it. I don't think you should wear that busy dress.

busy Verb

— If you busy yourself, you find things to do to fill your time. He busied himself with fixing his tie as he waited for her to arrive.

busy

— adjective actively or fully engaged or occupied busy with her work a busy man too busy to eat lunch — adjective crowded with or characterized by much activity a very busy week a busy life a busy street a busy seaport — adjective (= fussy) overcrowded or cluttered with detail a busy painting a fussy design — verb keep busy with She busies herself with her butterfly collection — adjective (= interfering, meddling, officious) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner an interfering old woman bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself busy about other people's business — adjective (= engaged, in use) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; ('engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) her line is busy receptionists' telephones are always engaged the lavatory is in use kept getting a busy signal

Synonyms busy synonyms

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busy English » English

occupied engaged active lively crowded in use industrious energetic diligent occupy engrossed working preoccupied confused bustling animated work untiring pressure of work officious noisy meddling meddlesome interfering intense hectic fussy eventful employ busybodied be occupied zealous work well woolly with windy willing violent urgent uproar up to here unrelenting undatable topsy-turvy tied up tangled take in strong strident straining

Topics busy topics

What do people use busy to talk about?
Work and occupation Work Method Work well

Work hard
Work and occupation Work Method Work well

Busy
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Telephone

Conjugation busy conjugation

How do you conjugate busy?

busy · verb

Examples busy examples

How do I use busy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

However busy you may be, you must do your homework.
I'm busy at the moment.
I tried to call Mr Smith, but the line was busy.
Are you busy now?
My father was busy.
My mother is always busy.
I am so busy that I can't help you.
I was busy yesterday.
I have rather a busy afternoon in front of me.
I'm very busy.
When I said that work had got busy so could we split the housework my husband pulled a face.
The busy woman ignored the ringing telephone.
I don't care if you're busy. Please help me now.
They are too busy fighting against each other to care for common ideals.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
You are always as busy as a bee.
If you're busy, I'll help you.
Friday is the day when she is very busy.
Friday is when I am least busy.
Roll up your sleeves and get busy.
No matter how busy he was while living abroad, he never failed to write home to his parents at least once a week.
For one thing, I am poor; for another, I am busy.
Robert was so busy he had to turn down an invitation to play golf.
The squirrel was busy gathering nuts.
If you are busy, I will help you.
I was going to write to you, but I was too busy.
You'll have to attend the ceremony whether you are free or busy.
I am terribly busy because the report deadline is near.
Everybody is very busy getting ready for the New Year.

Movie subtitles

Are you busy right now?
I was pretty busy, so I have been putting off getting a greeting from you.
Well, we've been busy with all the graft And corruption, and the like.
I get it, I'm busy, too!
Uh, but he's, uh, busy. He's. with rehearsal for his singing group.
He's always busy.
Seriously, are you busy right now?
You're so busy.
The Commandant's a very busy man, you know.
I like to look busy.
I had this friend, Lefty, and he was always inviting me out for a cold one, but I was too busy raising a family and defending our great country.
And if you weren't so busy trying to teach me some stupid lesson, none of this would have happened.
Well, he has been very busy trying to think up a new slogan.
There are 94 in the hinterland of Brokenwood, so busy day tomorrow.
He's busy at the moment.
I was. busy this weekend.
I know that you're busy.
The town wardens busy themselves.
I was busy all morning.
I'm going to be busy all day.
I didn't know that the military was quite so busy.
Mr. Harker, though I have devoted my life to the study of the strangest things, little known facts that the world is perhaps better off not knowing, a world content to busy itself instead with mundane affairs.
Henry is well, but he's very busy.
I'm too busy, darling.
He's too busy going to school.
Today I am very busy.
Is that busy husband of mine busy?
Busy after school? Always.
Well, un-busy yourself.
It's fine, it's fine. He's busy.
I would. Uh, but he's, uh, busy.
Tell her that was very thoughtful, but I'm busy ordering supplies.
Okay, look. We're busy.
JOSH: Dear God, I know you're busy with everything from Afghanistan to the Zika virus, but if you have time. we could really use your help with our fast breaks.
Figured you'd be busy with, like, wedding planning, or.
Where are you? Busy.

News and current affairs

Space Adventures was pushing for 2009, but I was pretty busy.
Last winter, America's central bank - the Federal Reserve - was busy patting itself on the back.
I am writing you in the hope that you will take time from your busy schedule as Israel's acting Prime Minister to hear one Palestinian's hopes.
Ministers are too busy recovering from their trauma to think about paying fat fees for big new international bond issues.
Beijing's busy people, however, seemed not to pay close attention: for them, it was business as usual.
PRINCETON - Forty years ago, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford street handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery cages to hold hens.
Busy with domestic political affairs, they do not hesitate to use Europe as a scapegoat to avoid breaking bad news to their fellow citizens.
Ever since France and the Netherlands rejected the European Union's proposed Constitutional Treaty, EU leaders have been busy pointing fingers at each other, or blaming French and Dutch citizens for misunderstanding the question they had been asked.
The situation is made more difficult by the fact that oil prices are already at a record high, while US ground forces are busy in Iraq, thus reducing the credibility of American military threats to Iran.
The market logic of individual choice has been busy destroying the social logic of community.
At least event organizers are keeping busy.
ANN ARBOR - It is June 15, 2030, and for Sam and Sue of Ann Arbor, Michigan, it is going to be a busy day.
As a result, one thing that both Israelis and Palestinians agree on is that the proximity talks will most likely lead nowhere, so both sides are currently busy ensuring that the other side will be blamed for the failure.
Certainly the US Congress was clueless; its members were still busy lobbying for the government-backed housing-mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, thereby digging the hole deeper.
It is therefore safe to assume that not only obscure academics and correspondents, but officials in Beijing as well, are now busy studying the history of the Ghulja uprising and of Osman Batur's guerillas.
LONDON - By coincidence, this is a busy year for round-number anniversaries for France's greatest leader since Napoleon.
I am you - busy, on a budget, overworked, shrewd, cute, clever, finding a way.
BRUSSELS - Emerging markets' currencies are crashing, and their central banks are busy tightening policy, trying to stabilize their countries' financial markets.
The breaking news teams returned to Bangkok long ago, where a military coup, ongoing mass protests, and other big political stories have kept them busy ever since.
They were too busy discussing the crisis in Syria - which now poses a real threat of international escalation - as well as the diplomatic, strategic, and economic consequences of the nuclear agreement with Iran.
When Herzen was writing his words, Moscow was not only busy successfully putting down the Poles, reasserting its rule there for another half-century, but also, together with China, carving up Central Asia, known then as Turkestan.
Indeed, Chinese diplomacy has been busy lately in trilateral talks with Pakistan and Afghanistan aimed at achieving reconciliation with the Taliban.
But, while America thinks in terms of networks, the rest of the world is busy connecting circuits.
So far, this new group has been too busy climbing the income ladder to express their resentment at the excesses of the elite, but one can feel a growing sense of anger among its members.

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