Noun preoccupancy has 2 senses
  1. preoccupation, preoccupancy, absorption, engrossment - the mental state of being preoccupied by something
    --1 is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
    --1 has particulars: abstractedness, abstraction; absentmindedness
    Derived form: verb preoccupy1
  2. preoccupancy, preoccupation - the act of taking occupancy before someone else does
    --2 is a kind of occupation, occupancy, taking possession, moving in
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