Usually means: Engaged in constant, active work.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. busy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. busy, busy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. busy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. busy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. busy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Busy, busy: Wordnik
  7. busy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. busy: Wiktionary
  9. busy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. busy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. busy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Busy, busy: Dictionary.com
  13. busy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. busy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Busy (Lyfe Jennings song), Busy (Olly Murs song), Busy (musician), Busy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. busy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. busy: Rhymezone
  18. busy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. busy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. busy: Free Dictionary
  21. busy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. busy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. busy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Busy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. busy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. busy: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. busy: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. busy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BUSY: Acronym Finder
  2. busy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. busy, busy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. busy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. busy: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See busied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
adjective:  Engaged in activity or by someone else.
adjective:  Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
adjective:  Officious; meddling.
verb:  (transitive, usually reflexive) To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.
verb:  (transitive) To rush somebody.
noun:  (slang, UK, Liverpool, derogatory) A police officer.

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