Preoccupancy

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preoccupancy \Pre*oc"cu*pan*cy\, n. [See {Preoccupate}.]
     The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the
     preoccupancy of wild land.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  preoccupancy
       n 1: the mental state of being preoccupied by something [syn: {preoccupation},
             {absorption}, {engrossment}]
       2: the act of taking occupancy before someone else does [syn: {preoccupation}]