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Unoccupied   /ənˈɑkjəpˌaɪd/   Listen
Unoccupied

adjective
1.
Not held or filled or in use.  "Unoccupied hours"
2.
Not seized and controlled.
3.
Not leased to or occupied by a tenant.  Synonym: untenanted.  "Very little unclaimed and untenanted land"





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"Unoccupied" Quotes from Famous Books



... There was an unoccupied shanty in the edge of the town farthest from the river, and to that Tom led the terrified and shivering group. It was three full hours before they reached it; and then they had nothing but the bare walls ...
— The Cabin on the Prairie • C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson
... lives not far away, keeping a good cow, raising amazingly good vegetables, gathering the apples and other fruit, and caring for the place. The house is unoccupied except during the five days each month when my friend restores himself, mentally and physically, by rest and quiet contemplation and observation. He takes with him a faithful servitor, whose old age is made happy by these periodical sojourns, and the ...
— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock
... Stanley returned to the veranda. It was unoccupied for chilly evening breezes had driven the loungers indoors. Absently he paced the creaking boards and, having reached a corner of the building, continued his promenade along what seemed to be the rear of the building. Here a line of doors opened on the veranda ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... dinners were apt to be late upon ironing-days. I concluded that, if the soup were punctual, and not too hot, I could leave myself ten or perhaps fifteen unoccupied minutes before one o'clock. It strikes me as curious now, the gravity with which this thought underran the fever and pain ...
— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... every day were unoccupied by the soldier's duties. The men could amuse themselves during these hours by reading newspapers and books, as a very good library was at hand. Aside from reading were such amusements as billiards, cards and music. These became monotonous ...
— A Soldier in the Philippines • Needom N. Freeman


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