{
    "term": "preoccupied",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "thinking and/or worrying continuously about something so that you do not pay attention to other things",
            "sensetop": "preoccupied (with something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She seemed preoccupied all the time I was talking to her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We live in a world preoccupied by sport."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["by", "with"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/priˈɒkjupaɪd/",
                "audio": "pr/preoccupied/preoccupied__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/priˈɑːkjupaɪd/",
                "audio": "pr/preoccupied/preoccupied__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}