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Definition
busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done
- Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.p. 1.9
There are no more uses of "preoccupied" in The Great Gatsby.
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