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pre-occupation

pre-occupation is the alternative form of preoccupation.

Meaning of preoccupation

Noun

preoccupation (countable and uncountable, plural preoccupations)

  1. The state of being preoccupied or an idea that preoccupies the mind; enthrallment.
    • The same preoccupation with developing a conceptual framework is evident in David Blank's Venezuela: Politics in a Petroleum Republic, a modified version of Blank's early theses.1987, Latin American Research Review, page 238
  2. The act of occupying something before someone else.

Forms of pre-occupation

pluralpre-occupations

Questions about pre-occupation

What is pre-occupation the alternative form of?
Pre-occupation is the alternative form of preoccupation.

Words near pre-occupation in the dictionary

  1. pre-nups
  2. pre-nuptial
  3. pre-nut
  4. pre-occluded
  5. pre-occlusion
  6. pre-occupation
  7. pre-occupations
  8. pre-op
  9. pre-operative
  10. pre-operatively
  11. pre-ops

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