preoccupy


 * Word**: preoccupy


 * Context Sentence**: In this context, the Brtish experience is part of a more general trend **preoccupying** several countries.


 * Definition**: if something is preoccupies someone, they think or worry about it a lot.


 * Resource**: Abercrombie.N and Warde.A, //Contempapary British Society//, pp103