According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
PREOCCUPIED
haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up
(adjective) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; “became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle”; “was absolutely obsessed with the girl”; “got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children”; “he was taken up in worry for the old woman”
bemused, lost, preoccupied
(adjective) deeply absorbed in thought; “as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class”; “lost in thought”; “a preoccupied frown”
PREOCCUPY
preoccupy
(verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; “His work preoccupies him”; “The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else”
preoccupy
(verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance; “the army preoccupied the hills”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
preoccupied (comparative more preoccupied, superlative most preoccupied)
Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
(taxonomy, not comparable) Describing a scientific name that was previously used, a junior homonym.
Verb
preoccupied
simple past tense and past participle of preoccupy
Source: Wiktionary
PREOCCUPY
Pre*oc"cu*py, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Preoccupied (-pid); p. pr. & vb. n. Preoccupying.] Etym: [Cf. F. préoccuper. See Preoccupate, Occupy.]
1. To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.
2. To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice. I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave something to reflections than to preoccupy his judgment. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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