Busying

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

1
busyness; making oneself busy with something
"All of you have some business or other to do in the world. Are not your thoughts, and talkings, and busyings, and anxieties, and cares, altogether about the business you have to do?"

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of busy form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

active at work engaged fussy tied up swamped

Example

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."

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