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(adj)
Excessively busy; officious.
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(n)
The act of one who labors; toil; work done.
Hard work.
The act of one who labours; toil; work done.
Characterized or marked by meddling; inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.
That meddles.
interference
Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.
Anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.
(N)
if and are related by , that is,
Reserved; engaged.
Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.
Decorative, or featuring decorations, especially intricate or diverse ones.
(v)
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
Tiresome, thankless work; drudgery.
currently being used
occupied; busy
Busy; full of energy and noisy activity.
(figurative) Very busy with activity and confusion.
An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
Subjected to too much work.
Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
Excessively burdened
(colloquial) Possessing great wealth.
loaded too heavily
Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.
Requiring immediate attention.
Containing a dense pack or mass of something; teeming.
overcrowded
(not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
Excessively active.
Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
(of any physical thing) Having great weight.
Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
(of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
Hard-working and persistent.
(followed by with) That is now full.
Having relatively high density.
Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.
Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
Of great size, large.
Having little difference or distance in place, position, or abstractly; see also close to.
Having a handle or handles, often of a specified number or kind.
Not smooth; uneven.
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
(slang) Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type.
Well off; affluent.
A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
During a period of less use or demand than the maximum (peak), generally overnight.
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
(informal) In a serious romantic relationship.
That is or are functioning.
Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
Representing the forefront, or position of greatest advancement in some field.
Done or occurring often; common.
In a job; working.
(uncountable) Employment.
(literary) True, real, actual.
Alternative form of state of the art. [At the highest level of development at a particular time; cutting-edge.]
At or close to the state of the art.
Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.
The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.
Not available.
Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.
(social) Unconstrained.
Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
(UK dialectal or obsolete) A grub or maggot.
A surname.
(by extension) leading, latest or most up-to-date
(computer science) Occurring in abrupt bursts, especially of information
Having been uploaded; having been digitally sent from one's computer to someone else's.
(cricket) Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.
Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure, especially if therefore done badly.
A region in the Middle East, in northwest Syria, under Israeli occupation since 1967; same as the Golan Heights.
A commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France.
"Held" is a song by Smog, released as his first single from his 1999 album Knock Knock.
(personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
(intransitive) To do something.
a single from the Christian rock group Big Daddy Weave.
To load (something) again.
(transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
(informal) very busy; having too much to do