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occupant
[ok-yuh-puhnt]
noun
a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something.
the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
a tenant of a house, estate, office, etc.; resident.
Law.
an owner through occupancy.
one who is in actual possession.
occupant
/ ˈɒʊəԳ /
noun
a person, thing, etc, holding a position or place
law a person who has possession of something, esp an estate, house, etc; tenant
law a person who acquires by occupancy the title to something previously without an owner
Other 51Թ Forms
- nonoccupant noun
- preoccupant noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
In Belfast, proposals for a street are considered by a council committee if 15% or more of all occupants surveyed express support.
He added that "surging flood water submerged and washed away over 50 residential houses with their occupants".
On 21 May of the same year, he broke into another property carrying a flat-headed shovel and beat a male occupant about the head with the shovel.
After searching the home, deputies confirmed that the other occupant, Warner, had safely gotten out and that Phay was barricaded in an upstairs restroom.
Hanging, inevitably, over the weekend’s celebration was the current occupant of the Oval Office, a boiling black cloud compared to the radiant and sunshiny Reagan.
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