- spoken for
- 1) informal already owned by someone else or kept for someone else, and therefore not available to you
Are these chairs spoken for?
2) old-fashioned married, or in a serious relationship
English dictionary. 2014.
spoken for
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spoken for — {adj.} Occupied; reserved; taken; already engaged or married. * / Sorry, my boy, Mr. Jones said condescendingly, but my daughter is already spoken for. She will marry Fred Wilcox next month. / … Dictionary of American idioms
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