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seated

 adjective
     
seat‧ed [not before noun] formal
1 if someone is seated, they are sitting down
seated at/near/beside etc
Paul was seated at his desk.
Remain seated until the aircraft has come to a complete stop.
2

be seated

spoken used to ask people politely to sit down:
Please be seated.
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