• adj.
    ⦿(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)
    lexical concept
  • her line is busy
  • kept getting a busy signal
  • receptionists' telephones are always engaged
  • the lavatory is in use

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:busy
  2. enl:engaged
  3. enl:in use
wn:interlingual indexili:i8885

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • in use
  • busyengagedin use