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Meanings of squatter in English
Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it.
Usage of squatter in English
1
As I said in the court-room the squatter trials are but farces.
2
We might require him again; so we quartered him upon the squatter.
3
With Louis Bachelor the young squatter approached Wandenong homestead in some excitement.
4
If I'd stayed there much longer I could have claimed squatter's rights.
5
The squatter's judgment was bad-thatis plain; but his heart was right.
6
What was missing was any clue to the identity of the squatter.
7
A hard little laugh rang from the depths of the squatter's chair.
8
Sun accuses Labour's Gordon Brown of being a squatter in No 10.
9
Tess, the squatter, was struggling with a new faith of her own.
10
Friend squatter, you ask what few men would be willing to grant.
11
Would the babe remain quiet until the pale squatter boy had departed?
12
Behind them was a squatter's camp in an old ferrocrete apartment block.
13
He compares, to those on his left, as Hyperion to a squatter.
14
But, good Caesar, man, you have squatter rights after all these years.
15
Two prospectors had to be bought out, to clear a squatter's title.
16
I don't think any body has so many troubles as a squatter.
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Squatter across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common