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[ adverb ] in a busy manner
Examples "they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs" Used in print (Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)The electoral procedure prevented the ready identification of party affiliation , but all vitally interested parties , including the government itself , were busily engaged in determining the party identifications of all successful candidates the month following the elections . Both parties and the Ministry_of_the_Interior were busily at_work after the elections trying to unearth the political affiliations of the successful candidates and , thereby , give the elections a confidential but known degree of national political significance . |
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