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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an unoccupied table" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a table that is not currently being used or occupied, often in contexts like restaurants or study areas.
Example: "We walked into the café and quickly found an unoccupied table by the window."
Alternatives: "an empty table" or "a free table".
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Mr. Taher sat down at an unoccupied table labeled with a single word: "Hearst".
Heidi and I found an unoccupied table along the periphery, which was isolated and dark.
She indulged him, and even placed a chair from an unoccupied table over the cord at its midpoint, to serve as a kind of traffic cone.
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Passing an Indian restaurant, we noticed one unoccupied table for nine people, so asked if it was available.
The tables are chosen according to the following random process: (a) the first customer always chooses the first table; (b) the nth customer chooses the first unoccupied table with probability a/(n−1+a), and an occupied table with probability c/(n−1+a), where c is the number of people sitting at that table and a is a scalar parameter of the process.
The only jarring note is that unoccupied tables are left unset save for napkins — as a result, they look positively naked.
The production strikes a fresh note with its first image, as the young Prince Mamillius (the fine Alfie Jones at the reviewed performance) scampers onstage and grabs a British Christmas party favor from a lavishly arrayed, unoccupied banquet table.
But there was an unoccupied seat next to me.
Guards barked to block them from an unoccupied V.I.P. area.
"This was an unoccupied building," said a former fire official.
No one really cared, but we did finally get an unoccupied room.
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