Squatter meaning

skwätər
squatters
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A person who occupies illegally a vacant house, building, etc.
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Someone who illegally occupies another person's vacant house or building, or settles on another person's vacant land.
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The definition of a squatter is a person who occupies a building without a legal right to be there.

A person who moves into an abandoned building and starts living there without permission is an example of a squatter.

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A person or animal that squats, or crouches.
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A person who settles on public or unoccupied land.
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A person who registers a domain name on the World Wide Web (WWW) that mimics the copyrighted, trademarked, or service-marked name of a company specifically for the purpose of selling it to the rightful owner. See also domain name and WWW.
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One who squats, sits down idly.
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One who occupies a building or land without title or permission. [From 1788.]
  • (Australia, historical) One who occupied Crown land. [From 1828.]
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(Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.
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(informal) A kind of Asian toilet where the user squats instead of sitting.
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Origin of squatter

  • From squat +"Ž -er.

    From Wiktionary

Squatter Sentence Examples

  • In 1849 the Illinois legislature demanded that its representatives and senators should vote for the prohibition of slavery in the Mexican cession, but next year this sentiment in Illinois had grown much weaker, and, both there and in Congress, Douglas's name was soon to become identified with the so-called " popular sovereignty " or " squatter sovereignty " theory, previously enunciated by Lewis Cass, by which each territory was to be left to decide for itself whether it should or should not have slavery.

  • The owner then has two years to start proceedings to evict the squatter.

  • A squatter will be able to apply to be registered as proprietor after ten years ' adverse possession.

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